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Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity
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Exploring philosophical questions about infinity, Graham Oppy examines how the
infinite lurks everywhere, both in science and in our ordinary thoughts about
the world. He also analyzes the many puzzles and paradoxes that follow in the
train of the infinite, addressing such simple notions as counting, adding, and
maximizing present serious difficulties. Other topics examined include the
nature of space and time, infinities in physical science, infinities in theories
of probability and decision, the nature of part/whole relations, mathematical
theories of the infinite, and infinite regression and principles of sufficient
reason.

Introduction;
1. Beginnings and puzzles;
2. Mathematical preliminaries;
3. Some cases discussed;
4. Space, time, and spacetime;
5. Physical infinities;
6. Probability and decision theory;
7. Mereology;
8. Philosophical theories;
9. Infinite regress and sufficient reason.

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* ISBN: 0521860679
* ISBN-13: 9780521860673
* Format: Hardcover, 316pp
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press
* Pub. Date: March 2006

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