Infinity
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Infinity
（The international research library of philosophy, 1 . Metaphysics and epistemology）
Dartmouth, c1993
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
dc20:111/m7812070287496
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Collected essays from English-language journals
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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