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  • The Provenance of Pure Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Its History

    The Provenance of Pure Reason by Tait, William;

    Essays in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Its History

    Series: Logic and Computation in Philosophy;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 10 February 2005

    • ISBN 9780195141924
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages342 pages
    • Size 242x167x26 mm
    • Weight 621 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    William Tait is one of the most distinguished philosophers of mathematics of the last fifty years. This volume collects his most important published philosophical papers from the 1980's to the present. The articles cover a wide range of issues in the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, including some on historical figures ranging from Plato to Gödel.

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    William Tait is one of the most distinguished philosophers of mathematics of the last fifty years. This volume collects his most important published philosophical papers from the 1980's to the present. The articles cover a wide range of issues in the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, including some on historical figures ranging from Plato to Gödel.

    Tait's main contributions were initially in proof theory and constructive mathematics, later moving on to more philosophical subjects including finitism and skepticism about mathematics. This collection, presented as a whole, reveals the underlying unity of Tait's work. The volume includes an introduction in which Tait reflects more generally on the evolution of his point of view, as well as an appendix and added endnotes in which he gives some interesting background to the original essays. This is an important collection of the work of one of the most eminent philosophers of mathematics in this generation.

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