W W Tait
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W W Tait |
| GIVEN NAMES | W W |
| FAMILY NAME | Tait |
| SIGNATURE | TAIT W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Provenance of Pure Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Its History
William Tait is one of the most distinguished philosophers of mathematics of the last fifty years. This volume collects his most important published philosophical papers from the 1980’s to the present. The articles cover a wide range of issues in the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, including some on historical figures ranging from Plato to Gödel. Tait’s main contributions were initially in proof theory and constructive mathematics, lat…
Plato’s Second-Best Method
At Phaedo 96a-c, Plato portrays Socrates as describing his past study of “the kind of wisdom known as 7rEpl cpvaiw iaTop Ca.” At 96c-97b, Socrates says that this study led him to realize that he had an inadequate under standing of certain basic concepts which it involved. In consequence, he says at 97b, he abandoned this method and turned to a method of his own. But at this point in the dialogue, instead of proceeding immediately to describe his…
Truth and proof: The Platonism of mathematics
Charles Parsons' Mathematics in Philosophy
The preface by Parsons begins: “This book contains the most substantial philosophical papers I wrote for publication up to 1977, with one new essay added. ... The collection is unified by a common point of view underlying the essays and by certain problems that are approached from different angles in different essays. Most are directly concerned with the philosophy of mathematics, and even in those that are not ... the connection between the issu…
Truth and proof: The Platonism of mathematics
Charles Parsons' Mathematics in Philosophy
The preface by Parsons begins: “This book contains the most substantial philosophical papers I wrote for publication up to 1977, with one new essay added. ... The collection is unified by a common point of view underlying the essays and by certain problems that are approached from different angles in different essays. Most are directly concerned with the philosophy of mathematics, and even in those that are not ... the connection between the issu…
Truth and proof: The Platonism of mathematics
Charles Parsons' Mathematics in Philosophy
The preface by Parsons begins: “This book contains the most substantial philosophical papers I wrote for publication up to 1977, with one new essay added. ... The collection is unified by a common point of view underlying the essays and by certain problems that are approached from different angles in different essays. Most are directly concerned with the philosophy of mathematics, and even in those that are not ... the connection between the issu…
The Provenance of Pure Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Its History
William Tait is one of the most distinguished philosophers of mathematics of the last fifty years. This volume collects his most important published philosophical papers from the 1980’s to the present. The articles cover a wide range of issues in the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, including some on historical figures ranging from Plato to Gödel. Tait’s main contributions were initially in proof theory and constructive mathematics, lat…
Plato’s Second-Best Method
At Phaedo 96a-c, Plato portrays Socrates as describing his past study of “the kind of wisdom known as 7rEpl cpvaiw iaTop Ca.” At 96c-97b, Socrates says that this study led him to realize that he had an inadequate under standing of certain basic concepts which it involved. In consequence, he says at 97b, he abandoned this method and turned to a method of his own. But at this point in the dialogue, instead of proceeding immediately to describe his…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy of Mathematics (2 works) · Point (geometry) (2 works) · Analytic philosophy (1 works) · Calculus (dental) (1 works)