[FOM] book announcement: On Brouwer

[Markus Van Atten]

Should you be thus inclined, you can now order

van Atten, M. (2004)
On Brouwer. Belmont (CA): Wadsworth.
ii+95 pages
ISBN 0-534-60993-7
$ 15.95

Note: the copyright year is 2004 not 2003 for reasons of the publisher's.

'On Brouwer' is meant as a short introduction to L.E.J. Brouwer's philosophy of 
mathematics. At the same time, it is also a new interpretation of this 
philosophy from a phenomenological point of view. No special knowledge is 
presupposed.

Contents

1. The two acts of intuitionism
2. Proofs and logic
3. Choice sequences
4. Brouwer's proof of the bar theorem
5. 'Creating subject' arguments
6. Intersubjectivity

mark van atten.

-- 
Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium