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Geoffrey Hellman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His publications include Mathematics without Numbers: Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation (1989), Varieties of Continua: From Regions to Points and Back (with Stewart Shapiro, 2018), and Mathematical Structuralism, Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Mathematics (with Stewart Shapiro, Cambridge, 2018).
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Téléchargez le livre :  The History of Continua
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The History of Continua

Geoffrey Hellman , Stewart Shapiro


OUP Oxford

2020-12-01

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Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are not composed of points, and that they can only be divided into parts potentially. There is something...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematics and Its Logics
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Mathematics and Its Logics


Geoffrey Hellman


In 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 different systems, and positing different frameworks serving different...

Parution : 2021-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Continua
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The History of Continua


Geoffrey Hellman , Stewart Shapiro


Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are not composed of points, and that they can only be divided into parts potentially. There is something viscous about the...

Parution : 2020-12-01
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics
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Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics


Roy T. Cook , Geoffrey Hellman


This 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 in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied...

Parution : 2018-12-06
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematical Structuralism
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Mathematical Structuralism


Geoffrey Hellman , Stewart Shapiro


The 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 abstraction from the nature of objects.The first two, set-theoretic and...

Parution : 2018-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Varieties of Continua
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Varieties of Continua


Geoffrey Hellman , Stewart Shapiro


Varieties 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 nineteenth century from the ancient Aristotelian view, that a true...

Parution : 2018-02-02
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematics without Numbers
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Mathematics without Numbers


Geoffrey Hellman


Geoffrey 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 and analysis, he extends his approach to set theory, and shows how to...

Parution : 1989-10-12
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Éditeur : Clarendon Press
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