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  title info:
    title: Mathematics and necessity
    sub title: essays in the history of philosophy
  name:
    name part: Smiley, T. J. (Timothy John)
  name:
    name part: British Academy
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Aufsatzsammlung.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2000
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    internet media type: text/html
    extent: x, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Why did Plato put mathematics at the heart of education for the rulers of his ideal city? Why has mathematics played such a central role in Western philosophy? And just how do we acquire knowledge of necessary truths? Three philosophers of international repute tackle these questions." "M F. Burnyeat brings out Plato's distinctive vision of the world as it objectively is: the structures of mathematics are also the structures that express the nature of the human soul and the soul that governs the world. Ian Hacking highlights the phenomena associated with the actual experience of proof, which so impressed philosopher-mathematicians like Descartes and Leibniz and onlookers like Plato and Wittgenstein. Jonathan Bennett explores modal discovery in Locke and Leibniz, and the infallibility of reason in Descartes and Spinoza." "The answers offered by these distinguished scholars make a significant contribution to our understanding of some of the great thinkers of the past."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Plato on why mathematics is good for the soul / M.F. Burnyeat -- What mathematics has done to some and only some philosophers / Ian Hacking -- Infallibility and modal knowledge in some early modern philosophers / Jonathan Bennett.
  note: edited by Timothy Smiley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Mathématiques
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Geschichte
  subject:
    topic: Mathematik
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Aufsatzsammlung
  subject:
    topic: Filosofie
  subject:
    topic: Wiskunde
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B72 .M365 2000
  classification: 190
  classification: 08.20
  classification: 5,1
  classification: AX 30100
  classification: CB 4100
  classification: CC 2600
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    record creation date: 010308
    record change date: 20240625170538.0
    record identifier: in00001994518
    language of cataloging:
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