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Book SynopsisKant'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.
Trade Review'Daniel Sutherland's Kant's Mathematical World is a remarkable scholarly achievement. The meticulously detailed analysis of Kant's theory of magnitude opens up into a comprehensive account of the mathematical character of experience, shedding new light on virtually every aspect of the first Critique and engaging with many of the liveliest current debates surrounding it. It is essential reading for scholars of Kant's theoretical philosophy.' Emily Carson, McGill University
'simply outstanding … Highly recommended.' D. C. Kolb, Choice Connect
Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: mathematics and the world of experience; Part I. Mathematics, Magnitudes and the Conditions of Experience: 2. Space, time and mathematics in the Critique of Pure Reason; 3. Magnitudes, mathematics, and experience in the Axioms of Intuition; 4. Extensive and intensive magnitudes and continuity; 5. Conceptual and intuitive representation: singularity, continuity, and concreteness; Interlude: the Greek mathematical tradition as background to Kant: 6. Euclid, the Euclidean mathematical tradition, and the theory of magnitudes; Part II. Kant's Theory of Magnitudes and the Role of Intuition: 7. Kant's reworking of the theory of magnitudes; 8. Kant's reformation of the metaphysics of quantity; 9. From mereology to mathematics; 10. Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.
