Binding: Paperback
Description: Paolo Mancosu presents a series of innovative studies in the history and the philosophy of logic and mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Adventure of Reason is divided into five main sections: history of logic (from Russell to Tarski); foundational issues (Hilbert's program constructivity Wittgenstein G del); mathematics and phenomenology (Weyl Becker Mahnke); nominalism (Quine Tarski); semantics (Tarski Carnap Neurath). Mancosu exploits extensive untapped archival sources to make available a wealth of new material that deepens in significant ways our understanding of these fascinating areas of modern intellectual history. At the same time the book is a contribution to recent philosophical debates in particular on the prospects for a successful nominalist reconstruction of mathematics the nature of finitist intuition the viability of alternative definitions of logical consequence and the extent to which phenomenology can hope to account for the exact sciences.
Title: The Adventure Of Reason Interplay Between Philosophy Of Mathematics And Mathematical Logic 1900 - 1940
Author(s): Mancosu Paolo (University Of California Berkeley)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198701514
Pages: 632 Pages
Publication Date: 3/9/2014
Category: Mathematical Logic