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

Potter, Michael

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9780198250418: Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap
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ISBN 10: 019825041X ISBN 13: 9780198250418
Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2000

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Michael Potter is a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Philosophy, having previously been Lecturer in Mathematics.

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Publisher
Clarendon Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
019825041X
ISBN 13 
9780198250418
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
316
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