Wittgenstein on Mathematics

by Schroeder Severin and Severin Schroeder

Book Overview

This book offers a detailed account and discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics. In Part I, the stage is set with a brief presentation of Frege's logicist attempt to provide arithmetic with a foundation and Wittgenstein's criticisms of it, followed by sketches of Wittgenstein's early views of mathematics, in the Tractatus and in the early 1930s. Then (in Part II), Wittgenstein's mature philosophy of mathematics (1937-44)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844658627
• ISBN13: 9781844658626
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"