Infinity

著者

• Moore, A. W.

書誌事項

Infinity

edited by A.W. Moore

（The international research library of philosophy, 1 . Metaphysics and epistemology）

Dartmouth, c1993

注記

Collected essays from English-language journals

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This work tackles the philosophical aspects of the concept of infinity, ranging from Aristotle and Zeno, through Hume, Berkeley and Kant, and on to tasks and super-tasks, Skolem's promises and paradoxes, models and reality, the Makropolus case, and the tedium of immortality.

目次

• Zeno and the mathematicians, G.E.L. Owen
• a note on Zeno's arrow, J. Lear
• Aristotle, Zeno and the potential infinite, D. Bostock
• Aristotelian infinity, J. Lear
• Hume and Berkeley on the proofs of infinite divisibility R. Fogelin
• infinity and Kant's conception of the "possibility of experience", C. Parsons
• the age and size of the world, J. Bennett
• Kant of cantor? that the universe, if real, must be finite in both space and time, P.M. Huby
• infinity and vagueness, D.H. Sanford
• infinity, G. Robinson and H.R. Harre
• the potential infinite, W.D. Hart
• proper classes, P. Maddy
• is 10 a finite number?, D.van Dantzig
• strict finitism, C. Wright
• tasks and super-tasks, J. Thomson
• tasks, super-tasks and modern eleatics, P. Benacerraf
• a problem for institutionism - the apparent possibility of performing infinitely many tasks in a finite time, A.W. Moore
• skolem's promises and paradoxes, W.D. Hart
• models and reality, H. Putnam
• what computers can't do, G. Hunter
• the makropolus case - reflections on the tedium of immortality, B. Williams.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA20228049
• ISBN:
  • 1855212609
• LCCN: 93018025
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Aldershot ; Brookfield
• ページ数/冊数: xxvi, 453 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC8 : 108
  • LCC : BD411
  • DC20 : 111/.6
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Infinite
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA2010033X