Description
Product ID: | 9781108456302 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics |
Title: | Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics |
Authors: | Author: Juliet Floyd |
Page Count: | 75 |
Subjects: | Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of mathematics |
Description: | Select Guide Rating For Wittgenstein mathematics is a human activity characterizing ways of seeing conceptual possibilities and empirical situations, proof and logical methods central to its progress. This Element is a presentation of Wittgenstein's entire corpus of remarks on mathematics defending 'aspect realism' and making connections with Goedel and Turing. For Wittgenstein mathematics is a human activity characterizing ways of seeing conceptual possibilities and empirical situations, proof and logical methods central to its progress. Sentences exhibit differing ''aspects'', or dimensions of meaning, projecting mathematical ''realities''. Mathematics is an activity of constructing standpoints on equalities and differences of these. Wittgenstein''s Later Philosophy of Mathematics (1934–1951) grew from his Early (1912–1921) and Middle (1929–33) philosophies, a dialectical path reconstructed here partly as a response to the limitative results of Gödel and Turing. |
Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-08-12 |