W. D. Hart

The Evolution of Logic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A selective, critical history of the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780521766814
• ISBN-10: 0521766818
• Artikelnr.: 30976764

Autorenporträt

W. D. Hart is currently a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he chaired the Philosophy department for 12 years. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, University College London, and the University of New Mexico. He is the author of The Engines of the Soul, now available in paperback (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and the editor of The Philosophy of Mathematics, and has published more than seventy articles and reviews in academic journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cantor's paradise
2. Die urwahrheiten
3. Expeditions: which sets exist?
4. The universe and everything
5. Truth eludes proof
6. Accommodating Cantor
7. Or not
8. The critique of pure reason
9. The ways of the world
10. The zoology of reality.

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1. Cantor's paradise; 2. Die urwahrheiten; 3. Expeditions: which sets exist?; 4. The universe and everything; 5. Truth eludes proof; 6. Accommodating Cantor; 7. Or not; 8. The critique of pure reason; 9. The ways of the world; 10. The zoology of reality.

Rezensionen

'The aim of the author is to make these achievements more accessible to philosophers and in this way to make available for them the tools necessary to renew the dialogue between logic and philosophy.' Mathematical Reviews