The concept of model : an introduction to the materialist epistemology of mathematics / Alain Badiou ; edited and translated by Zachary Luke Fraser and Tzuchien Tho.

Main entry:

Badiou, Alain.

Title & Author:

The concept of model : an introduction to the materialist epistemology of mathematics / Alain Badiou ; edited and translated by Zachary Luke Fraser and Tzuchien Tho.

Publication:

Melbourne ; [Great Britain] : Re.press, 2007.

Description:

1 online resource (lxv, 113 pages)

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Transmission

Notes:
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- The Category of Formalization: From Epistemological Break to Truth Procedure; The Concept of Model; Foreword; 1. A few Preliminaries Concerning Ideology; 2. On the Theses to be Defended in the Sequel; 3. On Certain Uses of Models that are Not in Question Here; 4. On a Purely Ideological Use of the Word 'Model'; 5. The Scientific Concept of Model and the Neo-Positivist Doctrine of Science; 6. Construction of the Concept of Model: I. Syntactic preliminaries.
7. Construction of the Concept of Model: II. Fundamental aspects of semantics 8. Construction of the Concept of Model: III. Some games with the example; 9. The Category of Model and Mathematical Experimentation; 10. The Category of Model and the Historical Time of Mathematical Production; Appendix; [Supplement]; Semantics; An Interview with Alain Badiou: The Concept of Model, ; Bibliography.
English.

Summary:

In "The Concept of Model" Alain Badiou establishes a new logical 'concept of model'. Translated for the first time into English, the work is accompanied by an exclusive interview with Badiou in which he elaborates on the connections between his early and most recent work--for which the concept of model remains seminal

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ISBN:

9780980666571 (electronic bk.)
0980666570 (electronic bk.)
9780980305234
0980305233

Subject:

Model theory.
Mathematics Philosophy.
Mathematics.
Théorie des modèles.
Mathématiques Philosophie.
Mathématiques.
Mathematical Theory.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.

Added entries:

Fraser, Zachary Luke, translator, editor.
Tho, Tzuchien, translator, editor.
Transmission.

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