Browsing Philosophy by Subject "CALCULUS"

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  • Berkeley's Analyst: Rigour and Rhetoric 

    Moriarty, Clare (King's College London, 2018)
    Consider the following puzzle: in 1732, Berkeley published Alciphron, and with it a sweeping pragmatic vindication of concepts whose terms fail to represent clear ideas. In that pragmatic semantics, he uses mathematical ...

  • Ructions over Fluxions 

    Moriarty, Clare (2022)
    Following the publication of Berkeley's caustic critique of calculus, The Analyst (1734), numerous figures in the scientific world responded to the text's allegations of rigour violations and a culture of mathematics-laced ...