Ian Hacking (University of Toronto)

Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ian Hacking draws on cognitive sciences, evolutionary psychology, neurology, developmental psychology, and cognitive archaeology (tools and the mind) to explore how mathematics became possible, for a species like ours, on a planet like this. An innovative book for those studying logic, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781107658158
• ISBN-10: 1107658152
• Artikelnr.: 39632464

Autorenporträt

Ian Hacking is a retired professor of Collège de France, Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts, and retired University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His most recent books include The Social Construction of What? (1999), An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2001), The Emergence of Probability (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Scientific Reason (2009) and Exercises in Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; 1. A Cartesian introduction; 2. What makes mathematics mathematics?; 3. Why is there philosophy of mathematics?; 4. Proofs; 5. Applications; 6. In Plato's name; 7. Counter-Platonisms; Disclosures.

Rezensionen

'Hacking does not restrict himself to the foundations of mathematics, but dares to cover both the breadth and the depth of mathematical philosophy.' Literary Review of Canada