Reason'sNearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap

Potter Michael

ISBN 10: 0199252610 / ISBN 13: 9780199252619

Published by Oxford University Press U.S.A, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reason'sNearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap
• Publisher: Oxford University Press U.S.A
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199252610
• ISBN 13: 9780199252619
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made in the philosophical study of the properties of the natural numbers from the 1880s to the 1930s. Reassessing the brilliant innovations of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and others, which transformed philosophy as well as our understanding of mathematics, Michael Potter places arithmetic at the interface between experience, language, thought, and the world.

About the Author

Michael Potter is Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Philosophy, having previously been Director of Studies in Mathematics.