Buch, Englisch, Band 67, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1187 g
Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua
Aporetic Method in Cosmology and Metaphysics
Buch, Englisch, Band 67, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1187 g
Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua
ISBN: 978-90-04-10159-3
Verlag: Brill
John Cleary here explores the role which the mathematical sciences play in Aristotle's philosophical thought, especially in his cosmology, metaphysics, and epistemology. He also thematizes the aporetic method by means of which he deals with philosophical questions about the foundations of mathematics. The first two chapters consider Plato's mathematical cosmology in the light of Aristotle's critical distinction between physics and mathematics. Subsequent chapters examine three basic aporiae about mathematical objects which Aristotle himself develops in his science of first philosophy. What emerges from this dialectical inquiry is a different conception of substance and of order in the universe, which gives priority to physics over mathematics as the cosmological science. Within this different world-view, we can better understand what we now call Aristotle's philosophy of mathematics.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
