Kant's Mathematical World: Mathematics, Cognition, and Experience - Couverture rigide

Sutherland, Daniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108429963 ISBN 13 : 9781108429962

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Kant's Mathematical World aims to transform our understanding of Kant's philosophy of mathematics and his account of the mathematical character of the world. Daniel Sutherland reconstructs Kant's project of explaining both mathematical cognition and our cognition of the world in terms of our most basic cognitive capacities. He situates Kant in a long mathematical tradition with roots in Euclid's Elements, and thereby recovers the very different way of thinking about mathematics which existed prior to its 'arithmetization' in the nineteenth century. He shows that Kant thought of mathematics as a science of magnitudes and their measurement, and all objects of experience as extensive magnitudes whose real properties have intensive magnitudes, thus tying mathematics directly to the world. His book will appeal to anyone interested in Kant's critical philosophy -- either his account of the world of experience, or his philosophy of mathematics, or how the two inform each other.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Sutherland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published numerous articles on Kant's philosophy of mathematics and science, including their relation to Euclid, Newton, Leibniz, Frege, and others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108429963
• ISBN 13: 9781108429962
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
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