Thomas Aquinas' Mathematical Realism

2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-33127-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

In this book, philosopher Jean W. Rioux extends accounts of the Aristotelian philosophy of mathematics to what Thomas Aquinas was able to import from Aristotle’s notions of pure and applied mathematics, accompanied by his own original contributions to them. Rioux sets these accounts side-by-side modern and contemporary ones, comparing their strengths and weaknesses.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rioux, Jean W.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Mathematical Realism in Plato and Aristotle.- Chapter 2: Plato on Mathematics and the Mathematicals.- Chapter 3: Aristotle on the Objects of Mathematics.- Chapter 4: Aristotle on The Speculative and Middle Sciences. - Chapter 5: Aristotle on Abstraction and Intelligible Matter. Part 2: Mathematical Realism in Aquinas.- Chapter 6: The Objects of Mathematics, Mathematical Freedom, and the Art of Mathematics.- Chapter 7: To Be Virtually.- Chapter 8: Mathematics and the Liberal Arts.- Chapter 9: The Place of the Imagination in Mathematics.- Part 3: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Modern Philosophies of Mathematics.- Chapter 10: Subsequent Developments in Number Theory.- Chapter 11: Non-Euclidean Geometry.- Chapter 12: Cantor, Finitism, and the 20th-Century Controversies.- Chapter 13: Realism and Non-Realism in Mathematics.- Chapter 14: This account as compared to other modern Aristotelian-Thomistic accounts.- Chapter 15: Foundations Restored?

Über Autor(innen)

Jean W. Rioux is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Benedictine College, Atchison, USA.