Essays on Gödel's Reception of Leibniz, Husserl, and Brouwer

by Mark van Atten

Book Overview

This volume tackles G?del's two-stage project of first using Husserl's transcendental phenomenology to reconstruct and develop Leibniz' monadology, and then founding classical mathematics on the metaphysics thus obtained. The author analyses the historical and systematic aspects of that project, and then evaluates it, with an emphasis on the second stage.

The book is organised around G?del's use of Leibniz, Husserl and Brouwer. Far from considering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319100300
• ISBN13: 9783319100302
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"