Autonomy of Mathematical Knowledge - Hilbert''s Program Revisited

Informationen zum Autor Curtis Franks is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy! The University of Notre Dame. Klappentext This study reconstructs! analyses and re-evaluates the programme of influential mathematical thinker David Hilbert! presenting it in a different light. Zusammenfassung The Autonomy of Mathematical Knowledge presents the philosophical ideas underlying David Hilbert's foundational program in a new light. Hilbert's program is traditionally regarded as a failure! but Curtis Franks weaves together an original historical account with philosophical analysis to show both its validity and its philosophical significance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. A new science; 2. David Hilbert's naturalism; 3. Arithmetization; 4. Intensionality; 5. Interpreting G2 for Q; 6. Autonomy in context; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Curtis Franks, Curtis (Assistant Professor of Philosophy Franks
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521514378
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51437-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries