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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hartry Field (New York University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.342kg ISBN: 9780198777915ISBN 10: 0198777914 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 27 October 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents New to this Edition Preface to Second Edition 1: Arithmetic and Cardinality Quantifiers 2: Mereology and Logic 3: Representation Theorems 4: Conservativeness 5: Indispensability 6: Other Forms of Anti-Platonism 7: Miscellaneous Technicalia Bibliography Note on Quine Letter Letter from W. V. Quine Contents of First Edition Preface to First Edition Preliminary Remarks 1: Why the Utility of Mathematical Entities is Unlike the Utility of Theoretical Entities Appendix: On Conservativeness 2: First Illustration of Why Mathematical Entities are Useful: Arithmetic 3: Second Illustration of Why Mathematical Entities are Useful: Geometry and Distance 4: Nominalism and the Structure of Physical Space 5: My Strategy for Nominalizing Physics, and its Advantages 6: A Nominalistic Treatment of Newtonian Space-Time 7: A Nominalistic Treatment of Quantities, and a Preview of a Nominalistic Treatment of the Laws Involving them 8: Newtonian Gravitational Theory Nominalized 9: Logic and OntologyReviewsAuthor InformationHartry Field is the University Professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, having previously taught at Princeton, University of Southern California, and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Science Without Numbers (original edition 1980, Blackwell and Princeton), Realism, Mathematics and Modality (1989; revised edition 1991, Blackwell), Truth and the Absence of Fact (Oxford University Press) and Saving Truth from Paradox (Oxford University Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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