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Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap

By Michael Potter

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2000
ISBN
019825041X, 9780198250418, 9780191520228
LCC
QA248 .P67 2000
Google Books ID
l6ekv2bgRYQC
Open Library ID
OL6897976M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4763812 bytes)
Pages
316\316
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made in the philosophical study of the properties of the natural numbers from the 1880s to the 1930s. Reassessing the brilliant innovations of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and others, which transformed philosophy as well as our understanding of mathematics, Michael Potter places arithmetic at the interface between experience, language, thought, and the world.

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