Markus Pantsar

Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009468909
• Artikelnr.: 70911818

Autorenporträt

Markus Pantsar is a Visiting Professor at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and Docent in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of Truth, Proof, and Gödelian Arguments: A Defence of Tarskian Truth in Mathematics (2009), and many journal articles on the cognitive foundations of arithmetical knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: a fractured landscape
Part I. Ontogeny: 1. Proto-arithmetical
2. Acquisition of number concepts
3. Enculturation
Part II. Phylogeny and History: 4. The phylogeny and cultural history of number concepts
5. The Development of arithmetic
6. Cumulative cultural evolution
Part III. Epistemology and Ontology: 7. Conventionalism and intersubjectivity
8. The character of arithmetical knowledge
9. Ontological considerations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.