This volume is a window on a period of rich and illuminating philosophical activity that has been rendered generally inaccessible by the supposed "revolution" attributed to "Analytic Philosophy" so-called. Careful exposition and critique is given to every serious alternative account of number and number relations available at the time.

Because evolution endowed humans with a complement of ten fingers, a grouping size of ten seems natural to us, perhaps even ideal. But from the perspective of mathematics, groupings of ten are arbitrary, and can have serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is smaller and well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has tu...(展开全部)

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. * Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson* Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy* Explains ...(展开全部)

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. * Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson* Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy* Explains ...(展开全部)

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)

齐斯·德福林（Keith Devlin），2004年国际毕达哥拉斯奖（International Pythagoras Prize）、2007获得卡尔·沙根科普奖（Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization）。他是斯坦福大学人文科学与先端科技研究中心（H-STAR）联合创始人及资深研究员，同时也是该校Media X研究计划的创立人之一。 人称“Math Guy”的德福林教授研究领域广泛，包括数学认知、推理模式与信息理论等，并钻研以不同媒介传授数学予多元大众，致力推广“软数学”的观念。已出版著作近三十本。

The leading thinker retraces the philosophical discussions around care We have a responsibility to care for our own bodies, but our culture tends to thematise the bodies of desire and to ignore the bodies of care—ill bodies in need of self-care and social care. The discussion of care has a long philosophical tradition. Philosophy of Care retraces some episodes in this tradition...(展开全部)