Philosophy of Arithmetic

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• neel_k · Oct 26, 2018 · Recommends

  …(indeed, most of them don't agree with _themselves_, since they changed their minds over time). Finally, I myself am not a philosopher, so this list is necessarily somewhat idiosyncratic: - Edmund Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic and Logical Investigations. In the first, he studies what we mean by numbers, and comes to (in my view) a very modern cognitive-scientific/computer-scientific view (ie, that we have direct access only…

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• KrisAndrew · May 8, 2014 · Recommends

  …formal, elegant dinner party, everyone would see the flaw but no one would speak of it... at least not at the party. That would be gauche. If you enjoyed the math, but not the Buddhism, you might enjoy "Philosophy of Arithmetic" by Husserl, or almost anything by Frege.

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