Thomas Aquinas' mathematical realism

Thomas Aquinas' mathematical realism / Jean W. Rioux.

"In this book, philosopher Jean W. Rioux extends accounts of the Aristotelian philosophy of mathematics to what Thomas Aquinas was able to import from Aristotles notions of pure and applied mathematics, accompanied by his own original contributions to them. Rioux sets these accounts side-by-sid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rioux, Jean W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2023]
Subjects:
Aristotle > Influence.
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274.
Aristotle
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Mathematics, Ancient.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mathematics, Ancient
Mathematics > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Plato on mathematics and the mathematicals
  • 3. Aristotle on the objects of mathematics
  • 4. Aristotle on the speculative and middle sciences
  • 5. Aristotle on abstraction and intelligible matter
  • 6. Objects, freedom, and art
  • 7. To be virtually
  • 8. Mathematics and the liberal arts
  • 9. The place of the imagination
  • 10. Going beyond
  • 11. Cantor, finitism, and twentieth-century controversies
  • 12. Mathematical realism and anti-realism
  • 13. Modern Aristotelian and Thomistic accounts
  • 14. Mathematics is a mixed bag.

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