Graham Oppy

Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an exploration of philosophical questions about infinity. Graham Oppy examines how the infinite lurks everywhere, both in science and in our ordinary thoughts about the world. He also analyses the many puzzles and paradoxes that follow in the train of the infinite. Even simple notions, such as counting, adding and maximising present serious difficulties. Other topics examined include the nature of space and time, infinities in physical science, infinities in theories of probability and decision, the nature of part/whole relations, mathematical theories of the infinite, and infinite regression and principles of sufficient reason.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511190148
• Artikelnr.: 38204912

Autorenporträt

Graham Oppy is Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University in Australia. He is the author of Ontological Arguments and Belief in God and Arguing about Gods (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and has received fellowships from the Australian Research Council. He is associate editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and sits on the editorial boards of Philo, Religious Studies, and Sophia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Beginnings and puzzles
2. Mathematical preliminaries
3. Some cases discussed
4. Space, time, and spacetime
5. Physical infinities
6. Probability and decision theory
7. Mereology
8. Philosophical theories
9. Infinite regress and sufficient reason.