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“michael detlefsen”

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  • Proof and Knowledge in Mathematics

    Edited by Michael Detlefsen ...
    These questions arise from any attempt to discover an epistemology for mathematics. This collection of essays considers various questions concerning the nature of justification in mathematics and possible sources of that justification. Among these are the question of whether mathematical justification is a priori or a posteriori in character, whether logical and mathematical differ, and if ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Proof, Logic and Formalization

    Edited by Michael Detlefsen ...
    The mathematical proof is the most important form of justification in mathematics. It is not, however, the only kind of justification for mathematical propositions. The existence of other forms, some of very significant strength, places a question mark over the prominence given to proof within mathematics. This collection of essays, by leading figures working within the philosophy of mathematics, ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

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  • Meaning and Necessity - A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

    by Rudolf Carnap ...
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  • Philosophy of Mathematics

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  • Husserl

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    Series series The Routledge Philosophers
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  • Frege

    A Critical Introduction

    by Harold W. Noonan ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This new book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Frege's remarkable philosophical work, examining the main areas of his writings and demonstrating the connections between them.Frege's main contribution to philosophy spans philosophical logic, the theory of meaning, mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics. The book clearly explains and assesses Frege's work in these ... Read more

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  • Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy

    Early Philosophical Papers

    by Richard Rorty ...
    This volume presents a selection of the philosophical essays which Richard Rorty wrote during the first decade of his career, and complements four previous volumes of his papers published by Cambridge University Press. In this long neglected body of work, which many leading philosophers still consider to be his best, Rorty develops his views on the nature and scope of philosophy in a manner which ... Read more

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  • The Vienna Circle

    The Origins of Neo-Positivism

    by Victor Kraft ...
    Join original Vienna Circle member Victor Kraft in his discussion of the movement for an exclusive insider’s view of this important point in philosophical history. In this in-depth philosophical study, Victor Kraft explores the role the Vienna Circle had on the international philosophical movement. The Vienna Circle constituted a point of departure for the reawaking, rebirth, and reformation of ... Read more

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  • The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge

    by Karl Popper ...
    Translated by Andreas Pickel, John Kinory ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge – as ‘…a child of crises, above all of …the crisis of physics.’Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the philosophy of science, epistemology and twentieth century philosophy generally.The two fundamental problems of knowledge that ... Read more

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  • Metaphor and Continental Philosophy

    From Kant to Derrida

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
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  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus

    by Michael Morris ...
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