Wittgenstein, Finitism, and the Foundations of Mathematics

by Mathieu Marion

Book Overview

Mathieu Marion offers a careful, historically informed study of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics. This area of his work has frequently been undervalued by Wittgenstein specialists and by philosophers of mathematics alike; but the surprising fact that he wrote more on this subject than on any other indicates its centrality in his thought. Marion traces the development of Wittgenstein's thinking in the context of the mathematical and philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199550476
• ISBN13: 9780199550470
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"