Realizing Reason - A Narrative of Truth and Knowing

Danielle Macbeth offers a new account of mathematical practice as a mode of inquiry into objective truth, and argues that understanding the nature of mathematical practice provides us with the resources to develop a radically new conception of ourselves and our capacity for knowledge of objective truth.

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About the author

Danielle Macbeth is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and the author of Frege's Logic (Harvard University Press, 2005). She has also published on a variety of issues in the history and philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, pragmatism, and other topics. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 2002-3, and has been the recipient of both an ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Summary

Danielle Macbeth offers a new account of mathematical practice as a mode of inquiry into objective truth, and argues that understanding the nature of mathematical practice provides us with the resources to develop a radically new conception of ourselves and our capacity for knowledge of objective truth.

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This substantial book is a highly original and thorough work of synthetic first philosophy ... This fascinating book contains many rich and original insights ... as a scholar with strong interests in logic, philosophy of mathematics and 19th Century thought, I found reading it extremely worthwhile.

Product details

• Authors: Danielle Macbeth, Danielle (Haverford College Macbeth, Macbeth Danielle
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9780198704751
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870475-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: logic