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The reason's proper study : essays towards a neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics / Bob Hale and Crispin Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hale, Bob, 1945- author.
- Wright, Crispin, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925.
- Frege, Gottlob.
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages)
- Other Title:
- Essays towards a neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bob Hale and Crispin Wright draw together the key writings in which they have worked out their distinctive neo-Fregean approach to the philosophy of mathematics.
- Contents:
- Singular terms (1)
- Singular terms (2)
- Why Frege does not deserve his grain of salt
- Grundlagen 64
- Implicit definition and the a priori
- Field and Fregean Platonism
- Is Platonism epistemologically bankrupt?
- Dummett's critique of Wright's attempt to resuscitate Frege
- Critical notice of Michael Dummett's Frege : philosophy of mathematics
- On the harmless impredicativity of N (Hume's Principle)
- Response to Dummett
- On the philosophical significance of Frege's theorem
- Is Hume's principle analytic?
- To bury Caesar
- Reals by abstraction.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-446) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-926632-8
- 9786612051821
- 1-282-05182-2
- 0-19-151907-3
- OCLC:
- 63294654
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