The Adventure of Reason

The Adventure of Reason Interplay Between Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, 1900-1940

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780199546534
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 510.1
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 618
Weight: 1254g
Height: 252mm
Width: 180mm
Spine width: 39mm