Da dove viene la matematica

I think it will be very easy to misunderstand what Lakoff and Núñez are attempting to do with this book, and the problem is not helped at all by the book’s provocative title. To call mathematics the product of “embodied minds” suggests that the authors will argue that mathematics is a social constru Leggi tutto

Recently completed reading this challenging journey through Lakoff's embodied mind theory with our Philosophy of Math study group at Saint Martin's University. The group, made up of math, philosophy, and computer science professors, struggled with Lakoff's approach to how fundamentals of number, ari Leggi tutto

It is the worst rating I have ever given to a book! Simply speaking, the whole book is trying to convince you that it has a more realistic explanation of the nature of mathematics, and believe me, it cannot even fake it! The most obvious examples are infinite series and Taylor expansion. In former,

Although I am a Mathematical Platonist. I couldn't help but be fascinated by Lakoff account of how concrete metaphors from the body and everyday experience inform our mathematical abstractions of the most aetherial and least earthy types. My only answer to Lakoff repudiation of platonism for a cogn

A really good book on how people build from concrete to the abstract in the field where abstraction is most recondite Mathematics. I think that human abilities like mathematical reasoning start like all things human from quotidian day to day aspects of our lives, walking, talking, eating, drinking,

Cognitive linguistics has at its underlying aesthetic the very literal understanding that how we think of things is what they are. This follows post-structural rhetoricians like Paul Ricoeur who argue that the connective tissue of language is metaphor -- where metaphor is the substantiation of the n Leggi tutto

I find some of the arguments in this book tautological, thought it is difficult to articulate why. The section on an Embodied Philosophy of Mathematics is one of the most interesting in the book. The authors argue against "The Romance of Mathematics" (Platonism, plus some cultural effects) and again Leggi tutto

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