Brouwer Meets Husserl On the Phenomenology of Choice Sequences /

• Main Author: Atten, Mark van (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Synthese Library ; 335
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Metaphysics.; Ontology.; Phenomenology.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

Can the straight line be analysed mathematically such that it does not fall apart into a set of discrete points, as is usually done but through which its fundamental continuity is lost? And are there objects of pure mathematics that can change through time? The mathematician and philosopher L.E.J. B...

Table of Contents:

• An Informal Introduction
• The Argument
• The Original Positions
• The Phenomenological Incorrectness of the Original Arguments
• The Constitution of Choice Sequences
• Application: An Argument for Weak Continuity
• Concluding Remarks.