[PDF] The Adventure Of Reason eBook

Author : Paolo Mancosu
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191021997

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Paolo Mancosu presents a series of innovative studies in the history and the philosophy of logic and mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Adventure of Reason is divided into five main sections: history of logic (from Russell to Tarski); foundational issues (Hilbert's program, constructivity, Wittgenstein, Gödel); mathematics and phenomenology (Weyl, Becker, Mahnke); nominalism (Quine, Tarski); semantics (Tarski, Carnap, Neurath). Mancosu exploits extensive untapped archival sources to make available a wealth of new material that deepens in significant ways our understanding of these fascinating areas of modern intellectual history. At the same time, the book is a contribution to recent philosophical debates, in particular on the prospects for a successful nominalist reconstruction of mathematics, the nature of finitist intuition, the viability of alternative definitions of logical consequence, and the extent to which phenomenology can hope to account for the exact sciences.

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679738954

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The middle-aged protagonist of Sartre's philosophical novel, set in 1938, refuses to give up his ideas of freedom, despite the approach of the war

Author : Steve Wilkens
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830840400

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Steve Wilkens edits a debate between three different understandings of the relationship between faith and reason, between theology and philosophy. The three views include: Faith and Philosophy in Tension, Faith Seeking Understanding and the Thomistic Synthesis. This introduction to a timeless quandary is an essential resource for students.

Author : Anthony Gottlieb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0393354229

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"His book...supplant[s] all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell."—A. C. Grayling Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental History of Western Philosophy, "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book, and a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2001.

Author : Jerzy Pogonowski
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
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ISBN : 3643913109

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This volume contains four essays which may attract the attention of those readers, who are interested in mathematical cognition The main issues and questions addressed include: How do we achieve understanding of mathematical notions and ideas? What benefits can be obtained from mistakes of great mathematicians? Which mathematical objects are standard and which are pathological? Is it possible characterize the intended models of mathematical theories in a unique way?

Author : Mehdi Mozaffari
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0415286158

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Uniquely, critically interrogates the concept of 'civilization' by asking whether it is still valid in the globalized world economy of the twenty-first century. Includes case studies on the Arab world, Islam, China and Japan.