Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity - Couverture rigide

Ardoline, Michael J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1399536338 ISBN 13 : 9781399536332

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics provides new solutions to the central problems of the philosophy of mathematics by reconstructing Deleuze’s metaphysics. It does so through direct engagement with analytic and continental philosophy, along with the formal and natural sciences. These new Deleuzian solutions reject equally other-worldly accounts of mathematics, such as Platonism, and accounts which treat mathematics as a useful fiction or an empty formalist game. Instead, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics argues that mathematical truth is grounded in the necessity of difference itself.

Since difference is entirely this-worldly, the truth of mathematics does not require us to posit the reality of transcendent entities or possible worlds. Doing so not only provides a new metaphysics of mathematics; it also explains the usefulness of mathematics for science and why mathematical truth appear to have such otherworldly properties in the first place.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael J. Ardoline is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He completed his PhD at the University of Memphis in 2021. He has published articles in journals such as Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Philosophies, and Open Philosophy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399536338
• ISBN 13: 9781399536332
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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