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Wittgenstein, finitism, and the foundations of mathematics / Mathieu Marion.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marion, Mathieu, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Oxford philosophical monographs.
- Oxford philosophical monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 260 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a careful, historically informed study of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics, tracing the work development of his thinking from the 1920s through to the 1950s, in the context of the mathematical and philosophical work of the times.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Wittgenstein's Anti-Platonism; 2. Logicism without Classes; 3. Arbitrary Functions; 4. Quantification and Finitism; 5. From Truth-Functional Logic to a Logic of Equations; 6. Philosophy and Logical Foundations; 7. The Continuum; 8. Strict Finitism; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-252) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-170155-6
- 0-19-156832-5
- 1-281-99876-1
- 9786611998769
- OCLC:
- 436041382
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