Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All?

Hacking, Ian

ISBN 10: 1107658152 ISBN 13: 9781107658158

Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Idioma: Ingl�s

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T�tulo

Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All?

Editor

Cambridge University Press

Fecha de publicaci�n

2014

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

1107658152

ISBN 13

9781107658158

Encuadernaci�n

Paperback

Edici�n

1st Edition

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Very Good

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Mathematics & The Sciences

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This truly philosophical book takes us back to fundamentals - the sheer experience of proof, and the enigmatic relation of mathematics to nature. It asks unexpected questions, such as 'what makes mathematics mathematics?', 'where did proof come from and how did it evolve?', and 'how did the distinction between pure and applied mathematics come into being?' In a wide-ranging discussion that is both immersed in the past and unusually attuned to the competing philosophical ideas of contemporary mathematicians, it shows that proof and other forms of mathematical exploration continue to be living, evolving practices - responsive to new technologies, yet embedded in permanent (and astonishing) facts about human beings. It distinguishes several distinct types of application of mathematics, and shows how each leads to a different philosophical conundrum. Here is a remarkable body of new philosophical thinking about proofs, applications, and other mathematical activities.

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Ian Hacking is a retired professor of Coll�ge de France, Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts, and retired University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His most recent books include The Social Construction of What? (1999), An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2001), The Emergence of Probability (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Scientific Reason (2009) and Exercises in Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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