After Euclid: Visual Reasoning & the Epistemology of Diagrams

by Jesse Norman

What does it mean to have visual intuition? Can we gain geometrical knowledge by using visual reasoning? And if we can, is it because we have a faculty of intuition? In After Euclid, Jesse Norman reexamines the ancient and long-disregarded concept of visual reasoning and reasserts its potential as a formidable tool in our ability to grasp various kinds of geometrical knowledge. The first detailed philosophical case study of its kind, this text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575865106
• ISBN13: 9781575865102
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.9"