The concept of model : an introduction to the materialist epistemology of mathematics
Alain Badiou (Author), Zachary Luke Fraser (Editor, Translator), Tzuchien Tho (Editor, Translator)
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
1 online resource (lxv, 113 pages)
9780980666571, 0980666570
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Front Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 thatare Not in Question Here; 4. On a Purely Ideological Use of the Word 'Model'; 5. The Scientific Concept of Model andthe 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 semantics8. Construction of theConcept of Model: III. Some games with the example; 9. The Category of Model andMathematical Experimentation; 10. The Category of Model and theHistorical Time of Mathematical Production; Appendix; [Supplement]; Semantics; An Interview with Alain Badiou: The Concept of Model, ; Bibliography; Back Cover
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