Looking for new mathematical concepts for the material world

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Looking for new mathematical concepts for the material world

Leclercq, Bruno

2011 • In Logique et Analyse, 54 (213), p. 211-224

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Keywords :

Alfred North Whitehead; Bertrand Russell; Formal ontology; Logicism; Formalism; Geometry; Ontologie formelle; Logicisme; Formalisme; Géométrie

Abstract :

[en] Read in December 1905 at the Royal Society of London, Alfred North Whitehead’s memoir “On mathematical concepts of the material world” is not only, according to Whitehead’s own retrospective assessment, “the most original thing that he had done”; it also provides very interesting clues to understand Whitehead’s contemporary collaboration with Bertrand Russell, as well as his later philosophical – epistemological and metaphysical – work.

Research Center/Unit :

MéThéor - Métaphysique et Théorie de la Connaissance - ULiège

Disciplines :

Philosophy & ethics

Author, co-author :

Leclercq, Bruno ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de philosophie > Philosophie analytique et de la logique

Language :

English

Title :

Looking for new mathematical concepts for the material world

Alternative titles :

[fr] A la recherche de nouveaux concepts mathématiques pour le mond matériel

Publication date :

2011

Journal title :

Logique et Analyse

ISSN :

0024-5836

eISSN :

2295-5836

Publisher :

Centre National Belge de Recherche de Logique, Louvain, Belgium

Special issue title :

Logic and Ontology : Alfred North Whitehead's early work

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213

Pages :

211-224

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Peer reviewed

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