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Does two and two equal four? Ask someone and they should answer yes. An equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? Helen Verran describes how... Læs mere
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This text presents an account of the argument between Thomas Hobbes and John Wallis, from the core mathematics to the broader issues. Their "battle... Læs mere
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In this brief treatise, Ekelund explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics. He examines randomness, the geometry involved in making predictions, and why general trends are easy to project, but particulars are practically impossible.
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From his return to Cambridge in 1929 to his death in 1951, Wittgenstein influenced philosophy almost exclusively through teaching and discussion. These lecture notes indicate what he considered to be salient features of his thinking in this period of his life.
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Presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005.
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Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for... Læs mere
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This book provides a contemporary resource for scholars and students whose work takes up the philosophical and sociological dimensions of number, quantity, measure, and... Læs mere
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This book introduces prime numbers and explains the celebrated, unsolved Riemann hypothesis in a direct manner. Suitable for both scholars and those with a minimal mathematical background.
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The problem of universals is one of the most fascinating and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics, with roots in ancient and medieval... Læs mere
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Surveys the history of modern model theory, emphasizing the significance, both for philosophy and for... Læs mere
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The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects.