Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674319427 ISBN 13 : 9780674319424

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Widespread interest in Frege's general philosophical writings has been elicited by the discovery of the mathematical properties of Frege's contextual definition of number and of the character of his proposals for a theory of the real numbers. This collection of essays addresses three main developments in recent work on Frege's philosophy of mathematics: the emerging interest in the intellectual background to his logicism; the rediscovery of Frege's theorem; and the re-evaluation of the mathematical content of "The Basic Laws of Arithmetic". Each essay attempts a sympathetic, if not uncritical, reconstruction, evaluation or extension of a facet of Frege's theory of arithmetic. Together they form an accessible and authoritative introduction to aspects of Frege's thought.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Widespread interest in Frege's general philosophical writings is, relatively speaking, a fairly recent phenomenon. But it is only very recently that his philosophy of mathematics has begun to attract the attention it now enjoys. This interest has been elicited by the discovery of the remarkable mathematical properties of Frege's contextual definition of number and of the unique character of his proposals for a theory of the real numbers. This collection of essays addresses three main developments in recent work on Frege's philosophy of mathematics: the emerging interest in the intellectual background to his logicism; the rediscovery of Frege's theorem; and the reevaluation of the mathematical content of The Basic Laws of Arithmetic. Each essay attempts a sympathetic, if not uncritical, reconstruction, evaluation, or extension of a facet of Frege's theory of arithmetic. Together they form an accessible and authoritative introduction to aspects of Frege's thought that have, until now, been largely missed by the philosophical community.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674319427
• ISBN 13: 9780674319424
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Éditeur: Demopoulos William
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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