Mathematical Intuitionism and Intersubjectivity: A Critical Exposition of Arguments for Intuitionism

by Tomasz Placek

In 1907 Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer defended his doctoral dissertation on the foundations of mathematics and with this event the modem version of mathematical intuitionism came into being. Brouwer attacked the main currents of the philosophy of mathematics: the formalists and the Platonists. In tum, both these schools began viewing intuitionism as the most harmful party among all known philosophies of mathematics. That was the origin of the now-90-year-old...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792356306
• ISBN13: 9780792356301
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"