The Long Shadow of the Parafinite: Three Scenes from the Prehistory of a Concept

by O. Bradley Bassler

Overview

The book addresses questions in the history and philosophy of mathematics. It is part of a long-term project rethinking the status of metaphysics in the modern European-American tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942795902
Publisher:	Docent Press
Publication date:	09/09/2015
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

O. Bradley Bassler studied in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and took a second Ph.D. in Mathematics at Wesleyan University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA and is the author of The Pace of Modernity: Reading with Blumenberg (re.press, 2012).