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Thomas Aquinas’ Mathematical Realism - Jean W. Rioux

Thomas Aquinas’ Mathematical Realism

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Buch | Softcover
XI, 280 Seiten
2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-33130-5 (ISBN)
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In this book, philosopher Jean W. Rioux extends accounts of the Aristotelian philosophy of mathematics to what Thomas Aquinas was able to import from Aristotle's notions of pure and applied mathematics, accompanied by his own original contributions to them. Rioux sets these accounts side-by-side modern and contemporary ones, comparing their strengths and weaknesses.

Jean W. Rioux is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Benedictine College, Atchison, USA. 

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Mathematical Realism in Plato and Aristotle.- Chapter 2: Plato on Mathematics and the Mathematicals.- Chapter 3: Aristotle on the Objects of Mathematics.- Chapter 4: Aristotle on The Speculative and Middle Sciences. - Chapter 5: Aristotle on Abstraction and Intelligible Matter. Part 2: Mathematical Realism in Aquinas.- Chapter 6: The Objects of Mathematics, Mathematical Freedom, and the Art of Mathematics.- Chapter 7: To Be Virtually.- Chapter 8: Mathematics and the Liberal Arts.- Chapter 9: The Place of the Imagination in Mathematics.- Part 3: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Modern Philosophies of Mathematics.- Chapter 10: Subsequent Developments in Number Theory.- Chapter 11: Non-Euclidean Geometry.- Chapter 12: Cantor, Finitism, and the 20th-Century Controversies.- Chapter 13: Realism and Non-Realism in Mathematics.- Chapter 14: This account as compared to other modern Aristotelian-Thomistic accounts.- Chapter 15: Foundations Restored?

Rioux s book constitutes the first systematic reconstruction of Aquinas s philosophy of mathematics. It provides contextual, historical, and philosophical elements for a better understanding of such a neglected view and its relevance for contemporary concerns. Scholars in medieval philosophy and history of philosophy, as well as philosophers of mathematics, will no doubt find in this book interesting subjects to debate. (Daniel Eduardo Usma Gómez, Philosophia Mathematica, February 20, 2024) 

Jean Rioux has written an admirable synthesis of the main debates in the philosophy of mathematics between those of a largely classical perspective ... . The book weaves together three main threads . The best quality of the book is precisely Rioux s interweaving of the threads of his investigation. (Timothy Kearns, Thomistica, thomistica.net, November 21, 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XI, 280 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Schlagworte Aristotle • Bernot • James Franklin • Middle Sciences • Platonism
ISBN-10 3-031-33130-3 / 3031331303
ISBN-13 978-3-031-33130-5 / 9783031331305
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