An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russells first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. This Routledge Classics edit...Daugiau...
First published in 1919, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy shows Russell drawing on his formidable knowledge of philosophy and mathematics to write a brilliant introduction to the subject. This Routledge Classics edition includ...Daugiau...
Popular science and media are awash in sweeping claims concerning how some characteristic human behavior, feeling, or psychological disposition exists because it aided our evolutionary ancestors in survival and reproduction. These claims often arise...Daugiau...
This book offers a contribution to our understanding of Nicholas of Cusas theory of geometry. It is based not only on hisgenerally more famousphilosophical texts (e.g., De docta ignorantia, I...Daugiau...
Serija: British Society for the History of Philosophy:New Texts in the History of Philosophy
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192865885)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (16461716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony. But at the heart of his thinking in bo...Daugiau...
Brian G. Brian G. Henning, Joseph Joseph Petek, Robert J. Robert J. Valenza
Serija: The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399531207)
A chronological and critically edited collection of Whiteheads published and unpublished essays and articles written between 1886 and 1916....Daugiau...
The book discusses the nine popular propositions in mathematics: the consistency theorem from logic; isosceles triangle theorem and Pythagorean theorem from geometry; ordered pair proposition and mathematical induction principle from Zer...Daugiau...
Years ago, James V. Schall wrote Another Sort of Learning, a book listing those things you should read but probably were never required to read. It is not a curriculum, except maybe one for life. This book you have in your hands is something of a ma...Daugiau...
Discover the story of mathematics like never before with The Mathematicians Library, an extraordinary collection that chronicles the evolution of mathematical thought and its profound impact on the world. This expertly curated anthology br...Daugiau...
Why have there been so few women mathematicians? This book does not seek an answer in absence but in the forces, ruptures, and intensities that shape the becoming of a femme philosophea mathematician, scientist, and philosopherwithin the...Daugiau...
An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts When Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeths lot, he uses...Daugiau...
Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics aims to introduce number systems to an undergraduate audience in a way that emphasises the importance of rigour, and with a focus on providing detailed but accessible explanations of t...Daugiau...
Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics aims to introduce number systems to an undergraduate audience in a way that emphasises the importance of rigour, and with a focus on providing detailed but accessible explanations of theorems and thei...Daugiau...
This books offers a novel account of the nature of numbers firmly grounded in results from numerical cognition and the philosophy of mathematics. Drawing on empirical data on the human experience of what we call numbers, the author shows that numbe...Daugiau...
First published in 1961, Inductive Probability is a dialectical analysis of probability as it occurs in inductions. The book elucidates on the various forms of inductive, the criteria for their validity, and the consequent probabilities....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Aug-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198945543)
What does it mean for a conclusion to follow logically from other sentences? Logical consequence is at the basis of any rational reasoning. Textbooks generally give a precise and formal account of logical consequence, but rarely provide a justificati...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814689366)
This volume explores how mathematical propositions are discovered, how they are demonstrated in various mathematical cultures ancient Greece, classical Islam, medieval and modern Europe, India, China, and pre-modern Japan and how they are shaped...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009478557)
Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This view emerged in a dialectical context in which certain laws of logic were hotly debated by philosophers. According to the pluralist, some rival logics are both correct in...Daugiau...
Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This view emerged in a dialectical context in which certain laws of logic were hotly debated by philosophers. According to the pluralist, some rival logics are both correct in...Daugiau...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?...Daugiau...
The book focuses on the diverse manifestations of mathematical thought at the end of the Middle Ages and right before modernity, revealing how mathematics was understood as both a tool for inquiry and a subject of philosophical reflection in its own...Daugiau...
This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos. Lakatos was one of the most significa...Daugiau...
Shortlisted for the 2024 British Academy Book PrizeA new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009546515)
The Pattern of Change explores the concept that pattern is the manifestation of change, integrating ancient Chinese thought with Western perspectives. Accompanied online by additional chapters and endnotes, this is a fascinating and wide-ranging to...Daugiau...
The Pattern of Change explores the concept that pattern is the manifestation of change, integrating ancient Chinese thought with Western perspectives. Accompanied online by additional chapters and endnotes, this is a fascinating and wide-ranging to...Daugiau...
Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities. Bertrands chord paradox, however, appears to show this to be false, and thereby poses a general threat to probabilities for continuum sized state...Daugiau...
From Uniqueness to Set Theory and beyond, climb the mathematical ladder of sameness and difference with award-winning mathematician Eugenia Cheng...Daugiau...
One True Logic is a major contribution to the philosophy of logic. It is the first monograph explicitly to articulate a version of logical monism, the view that there is a single correct foundational logic. Logical monism is opposed to logic...Daugiau...
This book re-examines the place of Carnap and Quine in the history of analytic philosophy by presenting them as sharing philosophical motivations despite their notable differences. It will be accessible to professional philosophers, graduate students...Daugiau...
