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Star and the Whole

Fabrizio Palombi
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  • ISBN 9781568815831
  • Weight: 226g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Aug 2011
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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The Star and the Whole: Gian-Carlo Rota on Mathematics and Phenomenology, authored by Fabrizio Palombi, is the first book to study Rota’s philosophical reflection. Rota (1932–1999) was a leading figure in contemporary mathematics and an outstanding philosopher, inspired by phenomenology, who made fundamental contributions to combinatorial analysis, and trained several generations of mathematicians in his long career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The first chapter of the book reconstructs Rota’s cultural biography and examines his philosophical style, his criticisms of analytical philosophy, and his reflection on Heidegger’s thought. The second chapter presents a general picture of Rota’s re-elaboration of phenomenology examined in the light of the Husserlian notion of Fundierung. This chapter also illustrates how the star-shape becomes a powerful instrument for understanding the properties of Husserl’s mereology and the critique of objectivism. The third chapter is a theoretical reflection on the nature of mathematical entities, and the fourth examines the complex relation of mathematical research with technological applicability and scientific progress. The foreword of the text is written by Robert Sokolowski.
About Fabrizio Palombi
Fabrizio Palombi, Professor at the University of Calabria (Italy), was Rota's collaborator and a Visiting Scholar at MIT. He is the editor of Rota's philosophical anthologies Pensieri discreti (Garzanti: 1993), Indiscrete Thoughts (Birkh?er: 1997), and Lezioni Napoletane , (Citt?el Sole: 1999), and coeditor of the proceedings of an international conference dedicated to Rota, From Combinatorics to Philosophy (Springer: 2009). Palombi is the author of two monographs: Il legame instabile (Franco Angeli: 2002), and Jacques Lacan (Carocci: 2009).

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