WITTGENSTEIN'S LECTURES ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS Cambridge 1939 From the Notes of R.G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees and Yorick Smythies

WITTGENSTEIN Ludwig, DIAMOND Cora [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0801409594 / ISBN 13: 9780801409592

Edité par Harvester Press, 1976. 0801409594, 1976

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1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (lightly faded at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 300 (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).

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• Titre: WITTGENSTEIN'S LECTURES ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS Cambridge 1939 From the Notes of R.G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees and Yorick Smythies
• Éditeur: Harvester Press, 1976. 0801409594
• Date de parution: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0801409594
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801409592
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture. He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with some of the class sitting in chairs, some on the floor. He never used notes. He paused frequently, sometimes for several minutes, while he puzzled out a problem. He often asked his listeners questions and reacted to their replies. Many meetings were largely conversation. These lectures were attended by, among others, D. A. T. Gasking, J. N. Findlay, Stephen Toulmin, Alan Turing, G. H. von Wright, R. G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick Smythies. Notes taken by these last four are the basis for the thirty-one lectures in this book. The lectures covered such topics as the nature of mathematics, the distinctions between mathematical and everyday languages, the truth of mathematical propositions, consistency and contradiction in formal systems, the logicism of Frege and Russell, Platonism, identity, negation, and necessary truth. The mathematical examples used are nearly always elementary.