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Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy
Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy Series
Author: Sepkoski David
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epis; mathesis; matics; natural; nicole; object; temology; theological; universalis; voluntarism; Young Man; Quod Nihil Scitur; Concern Universals; Voluntarist Theology; Mathesis Universalis; Theological Voluntarism; Nominalist Epistemology; Paolo Mancosu; Gassendi's Work; Early Modern Mathematics; Mathematical Objects; Mathematical Philosophy; Agnostic; Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophers; God’s Absolute Power; Hobbes’s Philosophy; Epicurean Atomism; Niccolo Guicciardini; Seventeenth Century Mathematical; Mathematical Practice; Infinite Division; Early Modern Natural Philosophers; Mathematical Astronomy; Nominalist Portion; De Corpore
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Add to cart the book of Sepkoski DavidPublication date: 04-2007
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Add to cart the book of Sepkoski DavidPublication date: 06-2012
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What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century?
In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the belief that there is no necessary correspondence between external reality and objects of human understanding, which they held to include the objects of mathematical and linguistic discourse. The result is a scholarly reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Berkeley.
This impressive volume will benefit scholars interested in the history of philosophy, mathematical philosophy and the history of mathematics.
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction - Mathematization and the ‘Language of Nature’; Chapter 2: Realists and Nominalists: Language and Mathematics before the Scientific Revolution; Chapter 3: Ontology Recapitulates Epistemology: Gassendi, Epicurean Atomism, and Nominalism; Chapter 4: British Empiricism, Nominalism, and Constructivism; Chapter 5: Three Mathematicians: Constructivist Epistemology and the New Mathematical Methods; Conclusion: Mathematization and the Nature of Language; Notes; References; Index
David Sepkoski is Assistant Professor of History at Oberlin College, USA.