Mathematics and necessity
Subtitle: essays in the history of philosophy
By: edited by Timothy Smiley.
Contributors: Smiley, T. J.; British Academy.
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy ;; 103
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Philosophy -- History.; Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Plato on Why Mathematics is Good for the Soul; title: M. F. BURNYEAT 1; title: 2. What Mathematics Has Done to Some and Only Some Philosophers; title: IAN HACKING 83; title: 3. Infallibility and Modal Knowledge in Some Early Modern Philosophers; title: JONATHAN BENNETT 139.