Kant's Mathematical World: Mathematics, Cognition, and Experience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108429962)

Kant's Mathematical World aims to transform our understanding of Kant's philosophy of mathematics and his account of the mathematical character of the world. Daniel Sutherland reconstructs Kant's project of explaining both mathematical cognition and our cognition of the world in terms of our most basic cognitive capacities. He situates Kant in a long mathematical tradition with roots in Euclid's Elements, and thereby recovers the very different way of thinking about mathematics which existed prior to its 'arithmetization' in the nineteenth century. He shows that Kant thought of mathematics as a science of magnitudes and their measurement, and all objects of experience as extensive magnitudes whose real properties have intensive magnitudes, thus tying mathematics directly to the world. His book will appeal to anyone interested in Kant's critical philosophy -- either his account of the world of experience, or his philosophy of mathematics, or how the two inform each other.

Author: Daniel Sutherland
ISBN-10: 1108429963
ISBN-13: 9781108429962
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2021
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2022