Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic (Pocket)
avPotter, Michael
ISBN: 9780199596355 - UTGIVEN: 2011-01-20Michael Potter shows, for the first time, that Wittgenstein's early Notes on Logic are a work of philosophical and historical importance. Using a challenging blend of biography and philosophy, he draws new conclusions about the nature of the Notes, the genesis of the Tractatus, and Wittgenstein's wo[...]
Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery (Häftad)
avSteve Hindy, Tom Potter, Michael R. Bloomberg
ISBN: 9780470068670 - UTGIVEN: 200702What do you get when you cross a journalist and a banker? A brewery, of course. "A great city should have great beer. New York finally has, thanks to Brooklyn. Steve Hindy and Tom Potter provided it. Beer School explains how they did it: their mistakes as well as their triumphs. Steve writes with a [...]
The Cambridge Companion to Frege (Pocket)
avMichael Potter, Tom Ricketts, Michael Potter
ISBN: 9780521624794 - UTGIVEN: 201010Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic b[...]
Reason's Nearest Kin (Häftad)
avMichael Potter
ISBN: 9780199252619 - UTGIVEN: 200206How do we account for the truth of arithmetic? And if it does not depend for its truth on the way the world is, what constrains the world to conform to arithmetic? Reason's Nearest Kin is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made towards answering these questions from the late nineteen[...]
Set Theory and Its Philosophy (Häftad)
avMichael Potter
ISBN: 9780199270415 - UTGIVEN: 200401Michael Potter presents a comprehensive new philosophical introduction to set theory. Anyone wishing to work on the logical foundations of mathematics must understand set theory, which lies at its heart. Potter offers a thorough account of cardinal and ordinal arithmetic, and the various axiom cand[...]
Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Inbunden)
avPeter Sullivan, Michael Potter, Peter Sullivan
ISBN: 9780199665785 - UTGIVEN: 201304This volume of newly written chapters on the history and interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus represents a significant step beyond the polemical debate between broad interpretive approaches that has recently characterized the field. Some of the contributors might count their approach as 'new'[...]
