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The Adventure of Reason
Paolo Mancosu presents a series of innovative studies in the history and the philosophy of logic and mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Adventure of Reason is divided into five main sections: history of logic (from Russell to Tarski); foundational issues (Hilbert's program, constructivity, Wittgenstein, Gödel); mathematics and phenomenology (Weyl, Becker, Mahnke); nominalism (Quine, Tarski); semantics (Tarski, Carnap, Neurath). Mancosu exploits extensive untapped archival sources to make available a wealth of new material that deepens in significant ways our understanding of these fascinating areas of modern intellectual history. At the same time, the book is a contribution to recent philosophical debates, in particular on the prospects for a successful nominalist reconstruction of mathematics, the nature of finitist intuition, the viability of alternative definitions of logical consequence, and the extent to which phenomenology can hope to account for the exact sciences.
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century’s major philosophical movements, and it continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today with relevance beyond philosophy in areas such as medicine and cognitive sciences. The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy is an outstanding guide to this important and fascinating topic. Its focus on phenomenology’s historical and systematic dimensions makes it a unique and valuable reference source. Moreover, its innovative approach includes entries that don’t simply reflect the state-of-the-art but in many cases advance it. Comprising seventy-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handboo...
Tales from the Wisconsin Badgers
Part history, part folklore, part legend, the book touches on the entire history of the Badger football program from 1889 to the present.
The Uehling Family, 1627-2002
Frederick Uehling was born in 1816 in Waldfisch, Germany. His father was Johann Caspar Uehling. He married Anna Margaretha Krug in 1836. They had twelve children. They emigrated in 1847 and settled in Richwood, Wisconsin. Several other Uehling families from the same area in Germany emigrated over the next forty years. They settled mainly in Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and California.
