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

Potter, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199252610 ISBN 13: 9780199252619

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Review

"...[Reason's Nearest Kin] sticks closely to its philosophical mission. This it pursues doggedly and thoroughly; thus the volume will be useful to anyone who is working through this material for the first time."--ISIS

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199252610
• ISBN 13: 9780199252619
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 315