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Abstraction and Infinity by Paolo Mancosu
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.08Paolo Mancosu provides an original investigation of historical and systematic aspects of the notions of abstraction and infinity and their interaction. A familiar way of introducing concepts in... -
Zhivago's Secret Journey by Paolo Mancosu
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £21.17Paolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book Inside the Zhivago Storm, which the New York Book Review of Books described as "a tour de force of literary detection worthy of a... -
Abstraction and Infinity by Paolo Mancosu 9780198746829
Booksplease Price: £91.68Paolo Mancosu provides an original investigation of historical and systematic aspects of the notions of abstraction and infinity and their interaction. A familiar way of introducing concepts in... -
The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice by Paolo Mancosu 9780199640102
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £41.05Contemporary philosophy of mathematics offers us an embarrassment of riches. Among the major areas of work one could list developments of the classical foundational programs, analytic approaches to... -
The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice by Paolo Mancosu 9780199296453
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £108.22Contemporary philosophy of mathematics offers us an embarrassment of riches. Among the major areas of work one could list developments of the classical foundational programs, analytic approaches to... -
Syllogistic Logic and Mathematical Proof by Prof Paolo Mancosu
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £58.20Does syllogistic logic have the resources to capture mathematical proof? This volume provides the first unified account of the history of attempts to answer this question, the reasoning behind the... -
Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics by Paolo Mancosu 9781402033346
Booksplease Price: £90.86In the 20th century philosophy of mathematics has to a great extent been dominated by views developed during the so-called foundational crisis in the beginning of that century. These views have... -
Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics by Paolo Mancosu 9789048168378
Booksplease Price: £92.88In the 20th century philosophy of mathematics has to a great extent been dominated by views developed during the so-called foundational crisis in the beginning of that century. These views have... -
Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century by Paolo Mancosu 9780195132441
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £26.60The seventeenth century saw dramatic advances in mathematical theory and practice. With the recovery of many of the classical Greek mathematical texts, new techniques were introduced, and within 100... -
Moscow has Ears Everywhere: New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya by Paolo Mancosu
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.87The conflict between Soviet Communists and Boris Pasternak over the publication of Doctor Zhivago did not end when he won the Nobel Prize, or even when the author died. Paolo Mancosu tells how... -
An Introduction to Proof Theory: Normalization, Cut-Elimination, and Consistency Proofs by Paolo Mancosu 9780192895943
Booksplease Price: £32.80An Introduction to Proof Theory provides an accessible introduction to the theory of proofs, with details of proofs worked out and examples and exercises to aid the reader's understanding. It also... -
An Introduction to Proof Theory: Normalization, Cut-Elimination, and Consistency Proofs by Paolo Mancosu 9780192895936
RRP: £112.50Booksplease Price: £104.45An Introduction to Proof Theory provides an accessible introduction to the theory of proofs, with details of proofs worked out and examples and exercises to aid the reader's understanding. It also... -
The Adventure of Reason: Interplay Between Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, 1900-1940 by Paolo Mancosu 9780198701514
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £42.16Paolo Mancosu presents a series of innovative studies in the history and the philosophy of logic and mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Adventure of Reason is divided into... -
The Wilderness of the Infinite: Robert Grosseteste, William of Auvergne, and Mathematical Infinity in the Thirteenth Century Paolo Mancosu 9780198926887
RRP: £119.00Booksplease Price: £110.30The Wilderness of the Infinite explores the emergence in the Latinate thirteenth century of original approaches to mathematical infinity and to unequal infinities. Within the span of twenty years... -
Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy by David Sepkoski 9780415542968
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In... -
Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery by Imre Lakatos 9781107113466
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £68.73Imre Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations is an enduring classic, which has never lost its relevance. Taking the form of a dialogue between a teacher and some students, the book considers various... -
Across Borders: Essays in 20th Century Russian Literature and Russian-Jewish Cultural Contacts. In Honor of Vladimir Khazan by Lazar Fleishman 9783631761632
RRP: £105.45Booksplease Price: £92.81The volume consists of 27 essays dedicated to Vladimir Khazan, the leading specialist in Russian-Jewish relationship and in the study of 20th century Russian literature. The essays deal with Blok,... -
Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy by Denis Fisette 9783030409463
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12The book discusses Franz Brentano's impact on Austrian philosophy. It contains both a critical reassessment of Brentano's place in the development of Austrian philosophy at the turn of the 20th... -
Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy by Denis Fisette 9783030409494
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12The book discusses Franz Brentano's impact on Austrian philosophy. It contains both a critical reassessment of Brentano's place in the development of Austrian philosophy at the turn of the 20th... -
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: Proceedings of the 41st International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium by Gabriele M. Mras 9783110763478
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £23.24This volume presents different conceptions of logic and mathematics and discuss their philosophical foundations and consequences. This concerns first of all topics of Wittgenstein's ideas on logic... -
Husserl and Mathematics by Mirja Hartimo
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Husserl and Mathematics explains the development of Husserl's phenomenological method in the context of his engagement in modern mathematics and its foundations. Drawing on his correspondence and... -
Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery by Imre Lakatos 9781107534056
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.02Imre Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations is an enduring classic, which has never lost its relevance. Taking the form of a dialogue between a teacher and some students, the book considers various... -
From Frege to Goedel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 by Jean van Heijenoort 9780674324497
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £36.49The fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic, some of them never before available in English translation, are here gathered together for the first time. Modern logic, heralded... -
Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at Harvard: Conversations on Logic, Mathematics, and Science by Greg Frost-Arnold 9780812698305
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £28.78During the academic year 1940-1941, several giants of analytic philosophy congregated at Harvard, holding regular private meetings, with Carnap, Tarski, and Quine. Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak 9780198755357
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.75When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to...