Aristotle and mathematics
aporetic method in cosmology and metaphysics
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Word Count
139,500 words, Guess
Page Count
558 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1270230M
- ISBN-109004101594
- OCLC Control Number31865604
- Library of Congress Control Number95001398
- Goodreads3421001
Classifications
- DDC510/.1
- LCCQA8.4 .C58 1995
Description
John Cleary here explores the role which the mathematical sciences play in Aristotle's philosophical thought, especially in his cosmology, metaphysics, and epistemology. He also thematizes the aporetic method by means of which he deals with philosophical questions about the foundations of mathematics. The first two chapters consider Plato's mathematical cosmology in the light of Aristotle's critical distinction between physics and mathematics. Subsequent chapters examine three basic aporiae about mathematical objects which Aristotle himself develops in his science of first philosophy. What emerges from this dialectical inquiry is a different conception of substance and of order in the universe, which gives priority to physics over mathematics as the cosmological science. Within this different world-view, we can better understand what we now call Aristotle's philosophy of mathematics.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Philosophia antiqua,
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