Finite Intuition

Finite Intuition
Author: Milo De Angelis
Publisher: Sun & Moon
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Mathematical Intuition

Mathematical Intuition
Author: R.L. Tieszen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400922930

"Intuition" has perhaps been the least understood and the most abused term in philosophy. It is often the term used when one has no plausible explanation for the source of a given belief or opinion. According to some sceptics, it is understood only in terms of what it is not, and it is not any of the better understood means for acquiring knowledge. In mathematics the term has also unfortunately been used in this way. Thus, intuition is sometimes portrayed as if it were the Third Eye, something only mathematical "mystics", like Ramanujan, possess. In mathematics the notion has also been used in a host of other senses: by "intuitive" one might mean informal, or non-rigourous, or visual, or holistic, or incomplete, or perhaps even convincing in spite of lack of proof. My aim in this book is to sweep all of this aside, to argue that there is a perfectly coherent, philosophically respectable notion of mathematical intuition according to which intuition is a condition necessary for mathemati cal knowledge. I shall argue that mathematical intuition is not any special or mysterious kind of faculty, and that it is possible to make progress in the philosophical analysis of this notion. This kind of undertaking has a precedent in the philosophy of Kant. While I shall be mostly developing ideas about intuition due to Edmund Husser! there will be a kind of Kantian argument underlying the entire book.

Philosophy

Philosophy
Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1898
Genre:
ISBN:

Mind

Mind
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1909
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

A quarterly review of philosophy.

On Leaving

On Leaving
Author: Branka Arsić
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674050730

Arsić unpacks Ralph Waldo Emerson’s repeated assertion that our reality and our minds are in constant flux. Her readings of a broad range of Emerson’s writings are guided by a central question: what does it really mean to maintain that everything fluctuates, is relational, and so changes its identity?

The Other Emerson

The Other Emerson
Author: Branka Arsić , Cary Wolfe,Stanley Cavell
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 353
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1452914729