The infinite /
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| Author / Creator: | Moore, A. W., 1956- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1990. |
| Description: | xii, 268 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Problems of philosophy Problems of philosophy (Routledge (Firm)) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1024653 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- Introduction Paradoxes of the Infinite
- Part 1. The History
- Chapter 1. Early Greek Thought
- Chapter 2. Aristotle
- Chapter 3. Medieval and Renaissance Thought
- Chapter 4. The Calculus
- Chapter 5. The Rationalists and the Empiricists
- Chapter 6. Kant
- Chapter 7. Post-Kantian Metaphysics of the Infinite
- Chapter 8. The Mathematics of the Infinite, and the Impact of Cantor
- Chapter 9. Reactions
- Part 2. Infinity Assessed
- Chapter 10. Transfinite Mathematics
- Chapter 11. The Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem
- Chapter 12. Gödel's Theorem
- Chapter 13. Saying and Showing
- Chapter 14. Infinity Assessed. the History Reassessed
- Chapter 15. Human Finitude
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index