Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics
Difference and Necessity
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2024
240 pages
978-1-3995-3635-6 (ISBN)
Description
Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics provides new solutions to the central problems of the philosophy of mathematics by reconstructing Deleuze's metaphysics. It does so through direct engagement with analytic and continental philosophy, along with the formal and natural sciences. These new Deleuzian solutions reject equally other-worldly accounts of mathematics, such as Platonism, and accounts which treat mathematics as a useful fiction or an empty formalist game. Instead, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics argues that mathematical truth is grounded in the necessity of difference itself. Since difference is entirely this-worldly, the truth of mathematics does not require us to posit the reality of transcendent entities or possible worlds. Doing so not only provides a new metaphysics of mathematics; it also explains the usefulness of mathematics for science and why mathematical truth appear to have such otherworldly properties in the first place.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,48 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-3635-6 (9781399536356)
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