Aristotle and mathematics : aporetic method in cosmology and metaphysics /
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 mathe...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; New York :
E.J. Brill,
1995.
سلاسل:
Philosophia Antiqua
67.
Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: QA8.4 .C58 1995
| الملخص: | 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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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 558 pages) |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-528) and indexes. |
| ردمك: | 9789004320901 |
| تدمد: | 0079-1687 ; |
| وصول: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |