Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing

by Danielle Macbeth

Realizing Reason pursues three interrelated themes. First, it traces the essential moments in the historical unfolding--from the ancient Greeks, through Descartes, Kant, and developments in the nineteenth century, to the present--that culminates in the realization of pure reason as a power of knowing. Second, it provides a cogent account of mathematical practice as a mode of inquiry into objective truth. And finally, it develops and defends a new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198704755
• ISBN13: 9780198704751
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"