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Wittgenstein, mathematics and world

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wittgenstein, mathematics and world/ edited by Bob Clark.
other author:	Clark, Bob.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xiii, 215 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Mathematics - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63991-8
ISBN:	9783319639918

Wittgenstein, mathematics and world
Wittgenstein, mathematics and world[electronic resource] /edited by Bob Clark. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xiii, 215 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - History of analytic philosophy. - History of analytic philosophy..

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Problem Posed -- Chapter 2: Fictionalism, Applicability, and Face Value -- Chapter 3: Infinity and Concept-Determination -- Chapter 4: The Hardness of the Logical 'Must' -- Chapter 5: The Problem Solved -- Appendix 1: Groups, Transformations and Homomorphisms -- Appendix 2: A Representation Theorem.

This book uses Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical methodology to solve a problem that has perplexed thinkers for thousands of years: why does (abstract) mathematics applies so wonderfully well to the (concrete, physical) world? The book is distinctive in several ways. First, it gives the reader a route into understanding important features of Wittgenstein's writings and lectures by using his methodology to tackle this long-standing and seemingly intractable philosophical problem. More than this, though, it offers an outline of important (sometimes little-known) aspects of the development of mathematical thought through the ages, and an engagement of Wittgenstein's philosophy with this and with contemporary philosophy of mathematics on its own terms. A clear overview of all this in the context of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics is interesting in its own right; it is also just what is needed to solve the problem of mathematics and world.

ISBN: 9783319639918

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-63991-8doiSubjects--Personal Names:

556745
Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
1889-1951.Subjects--Topical Terms:

575254
Mathematics
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: QA9

Dewey Class. No.: 510.1

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