• Media type: Book; Thesis
  • Title: Nominalism and constructivism in seventeenth-century mathematical philosophy
  • Contains: Introduction: mathematization and the language of nature -- Realists and nominalists : language and mathematics before the scientific revolution -- Ontology recapitulates epistemology : Gassendi, epicurean atomism, and nominalism -- British empiricism, nominalism, and constructivism -- Three mathematicians : constructivist epistemology and the new mathematical methods -- Conclusion: mathematization and the nature of language
  • Contributor: Sepkoski, David [Author]
  • Published: New York [u.a.]: Routledge, 2007
  • Published in: Routledge studies in seventeenth century philosophy ; 11
  • Issue: 1. publ.
  • Extent: 172 S.
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780415702119; 0415702119
  • RVK notation: SG 700 : Philosophie und Mathematik
  • Keywords: Mathematik > Philosophie > Nominalismus > Konstruktivismus > Geschichte 1600-1700
  • Origination:
  • University thesis: Teilw. zugl.: Minneapolis, Univ. of Minnesota, Diss., 2002 u.d.T.: Sepkoski, David: Numbers and things
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: This book seeks 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 17th century.--

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