Wittgenstein and the Turning Point in the Philosophy of Mathematics

Informationen zum Autor S.G. Shanker Zusammenfassung First published in 2005. This study seeks to identify the specific mistakes that critics were alluding to in their passing asides on Wittgenstein's failure to grasp the mechanics of Godel's second incompleteness theorem. It also includes an understanding of his attack on meta-mathematics and Hilbert's Programme. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Wittgenstein’s Turning-Point; Chapter 2 The Strains in the Realist/Anti-Realist Framework; Chapter 3 The Nature of Proof; Chapter 4 Surveyability; Chapter 5 The Perils of Prose; Chapter 6 Consistency; Chapter 7 The Recovery of Certainty; Chapter 8 Freedom and Necessity;

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• Authors: S.G. Shanker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2010
• EAN: 9780415607551
• ISBN: 978-0-415-60755-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Methodology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -