Philosophy of Mathematics after Wittgenstein - Couverture souple

Bangu, Sorin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009574949 ISBN 13 : 9781009574945

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Wittgenstein once said that his aim was to make the philosophical problems 'completely disappear', a remark that has baffled philosophers ever since. In this book, Sorin Bangu reconstructs and defends Wittgenstein's unusual idea, and applies it to the traditional problems in philosophy of mathematics, setting out and explaining the subtleties of what is considered the most difficult area of Wittgenstein's views. He also considers how, according to the later Wittgenstein, we should think of the relation between philosophy and mathematics, articulating Wittgenstein's 'normativist' dissolution strategy and explaining his 'therapeutic' vision of the relation between the two disciplines. His book shows how these controversial views sit within the context of current debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and mounts a detailed and convincing defence of the radical eliminative claim – that philosophy of mathematics after Wittgenstein is devoid of its traditional problems.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sorin Bangu is Professor of Philosophy at University of Bergen. He is the author of The Applicability of Mathematics in Science: Indispensability and Ontology (2012), and editor of Naturalizing Logico-Mathematical Knowledge: Approaches from Philosophy, Psychology and Cognitive Science (2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009574949
• ISBN 13: 9781009574945
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
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