Philosophy of Mathematics

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is likely the greatest philosophical thinker America has ever produced. His contributions to philosophy would in...

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This monograph presents an interpretive essay on the foundations of Leibnizs calculus, accompanied by key texts in English translation. The essay e...

Husserl's Philosophy of Mathematical Practice explores the applicability of the phenomenological method to philosophy of mathematical practice. The...

Husserl's Philosophy of Mathematical Practice explores the applicability of the phenomenological method to philosophy of mathematical practice. The...

This volume gathers together for the first time the philosophical journal articles that appeared during Leibniz's lifetime under his name or which ...

This book highlights and develops a hitherto neglected area of Hans Blumenberg's contributions, i.e., history and philosophy of science. It covers ...

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical an...

Math's infinite mysteries unfold in this updated edition of the award-winning The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient ant odome...

This is the first wide-ranging analysis of Alain Badious use, development and transformation of the concept of history. Despite the wealth of persp...

A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathema...

A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating historiesGalileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathemat...

A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensionssparking both controversy and discovery.    The s...

Ed Freemans influential ideas on stakeholder theory, business ethics, humanities, and capitalism became foundational in the management field and tu...

Im Jahre 1727 ging der erst zwanzigjährige Leonhard Euler an die neu gegründete Akademie der Wissenschaften in St. Petersburg, vermittelt durch sei...

Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend...

Originally published in 1923 Chance and Error examines the vagaries of chance, and how this is the result of the interference of yes and no. The bo...

Tessellations: Mathematics, Art and Recreation aims to present a comprehensive introduction to tessellations (tiling) at a level accessible to non-...

People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This boo...