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Mathematical Structuralism by Geoffrey Hellman 9781108456432
Booksplease Price: £19.72The 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... -
The Smithsonian: Octopus on the Mall by Geoffrey Hellman 9780313200199
Booksplease Price: £51.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313200199Author Geoffrey HellmanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Praeger Publishers... -
Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays by Geoffrey Hellman
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £79.06In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between... -
Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics by Geoffrey Hellman 9783319962733
Booksplease Price: £54.45This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars... -
Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays by Geoffrey Hellman 9781108714006
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £25.92In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between... -
Varieties of Continua: From Regions to Points and Back by Geoffrey Hellman 9780198712749
Booksplease Price: £77.29Varieties of Continua explores the development of the idea of the continuous. Hellman and Shapiro begin with two historical episodes. The first is the remarkably rapid transition in the course of the... -
Mathematics without Numbers: Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation by Geoffrey Hellman 9780198240341
Booksplease Price: £54.58Geoffrey Hellman presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of structural possibilities, as opposed to absolute, Platonic objects. After dealing with the natural numbers... -
Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox by Richard A. Healey 9780816630653
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.85A new approach to the quantum measurement dilemma.With relativity theory, quantum mechanics stands as the conceptual foundation of modern physics. It forms the basis by which we understand the minute... -
In the Light of Logic by Solomon Feferman 9780195080308
Booksplease Price: £84.23Solomon Feferman is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of mathematics. This volume brings together a selection of his most important recent writings, covering the relation between logic and... -
The Philosophy of Mathematics Today by Matthias Schirn 9780198236542
Booksplease Price: £99.73The Philosophy of Mathematics Today gives a panorama of the best current work in this lively field, through twenty essays specially written for this collection by leading figures. The topics include... -
Constructibility and Mathematical Existence by Charles S. Chihara 9780198248170
Booksplease Price: £78.23This book is concerned with `the problem of existence in mathematics'. It develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of the constructibility of... -
A Subject With No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics by John P. Burgess 9780198236153
Booksplease Price: £91.68Numbers and other mathematical objects are exceptional in having no locations in space or time or relations of cause and effect. This makes it difficult to account for the possibility of the...