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The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein (Studies in Continental Thought)

By Burt C. Hopkins

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0253356717, 9780253356710
LCC
QA9 .H66 2011
Google Books ID
#ИМЯ?
Open Library ID
OL25202386M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4186356 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Pages
592\593
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Burt C. Hopkins presents the first in-depth study of the work of Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein on the philosophical foundations of the logic of modern symbolic mathematics. Accounts of the philosophical origins of formalized concepts—especially mathematical concepts and the process of mathematical abstraction that generates them—have been paramount to the development of phenomenology. Both Husserl and Klein independently concluded that it is impossible to separate the historical origin of the thought that generates the basic concepts of mathematics from their philosophical meanings. Hopkins explores how Husserl and Klein arrived at their conclusion and its philosophical implications for the modern project of formalizing all knowledge.

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