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Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all?
- Title
- Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all? / Ian Hacking.
- Author
- Hacking, Ian
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 290 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Hacking explores how mathematics became possible for the human race, and how it ensured our status as the dominant species.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-280) and index.
- Contents
- Cartesian introduction -- What makes mathematics mathematics? -- Why is there philosophy of mathematics -- Proofs -- Applications -- In Plato's name -- Counter-platonisms.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7931
- ISBN
- 1107050170
- 9781107050174
- 1107658152
- 9781107658158
- LCCN
- 9781107658158
- OCLC
- 857646038
- Author
- Hacking, Ian, author.
- Title
- Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all? / Ian Hacking.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-280) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781107658158
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7931