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  1. The Surveyability of Mathematical Proof: A Historical Perspective.O. Bradley Bassler - 2006 - Synthese 148 (1):99-133.
    This paper rejoins the debate surrounding Thomas Tymockzko’s paper on the surveyability of proof, first published in the Journal of Philosophy, and makes the claim that by attending to certain broad features of modern conceptions of proof we may understand ways in which the debate surrounding the surveyability of proof has heretofore remained unduly circumscribed. Motivated by these historical reflections, I suggest a distinction between local and global surveyability which I believe has the promise to open up significant new advances (...)
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    Kant, Shelley and the Visionary Critique of Metaphysics.O. Bradley Bassler - 2018 - Springer Verlag.
    This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age. Fusing together critical philosophy and visionary poetry, Bassler develops the notion of visionary critique, or paraphysics, as a model for future philosophical endeavor. This philosophical practice is rooted in the concept of the indefinite power associated with the sublime in both Kant and Shelley’s work, to which the notion of the parafinite or indefinitely large (...)
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    Leibniz on the Indefinite as Infinite.O. Bradley Bassler - 1998 - Review of Metaphysics 51 (4):849 - 874.
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    Leibniz on intension, extension, and the representation of syllogistic inference.O. Bradley Bassler - 1998 - Synthese 116 (2):117-139.
    New light is shed on Leibniz’s commitment to the metaphysical priority of the intensional interpretation of logic by considering the arithmetical and graphical representations of syllogistic inference that Leibniz studied. Crucial to understanding this connection is the idea that concepts can be intensionally represented in terms of properties of geometric extension, though significantly not the simple geometric property of part-whole inclusion. I go on to provide an explanation for how Leibniz could maintain the metaphysical priority of the intensional interpretation while (...)
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    The Birthplace of Thinking: Heidegger's Late Thoughts on Tautology.O. Bradley Bassler - 2001 - Heidegger Studies 17:117-133.
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    The Birthplace of Thinking: Heidegger's Late Thoughts on Tautology.O. Bradley Bassler - 2001 - Heidegger Studies 17:117-133.
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    Diagnosing contemporary philosophy with the Matrix movies.O. Bradley Bassler - 2017 - London: Palgrave MacMillan.
    This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: "What is the Matrix?" Guided by the example of the Matrix film trilogy, the author examines issues ranging from simulation, proof and action to value, culture and mythology, offering a progressively deeper diagnosis of modern philosophical conditions. In contrast to the contemporary focus upon cognitive science and a commitment to the distinction between appearance and reality, this book helps readers to explore the argument that such abstractions are (...)
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    Motion and Mind in the Balance: The Transformation of Leibniz's Early Philosophy.O. Bradley Bassler - 2002 - Studia Leibnitiana 34 (2):221 - 231.
    In der Zeit zwischen 1668 und 1671 ändert Leibniz seine Ansicht zu Bewegung und Körper von dem Standpunkt, Bewegung sei keine essentielle Eigenschaft eines Körpers, zu dem, dass Bewegung den Wesenskern eines Körpers bilde. Dieser Aufsatz will den Prozess analysieren, der diesem Wandel zu Grunde liegt. Die Theoria motus abstracþi wird dabei als vorsichtige Synthese interpretiert, die zwar den Wandel ankündigt, die aber den neuen Standpunkt noch nicht explizit vertritt. Die ausdrückliche Hinwendung zu der Position, Bewegung sei der Wesenskern eines (...)
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  9. Towards Paris: The Growth of Leibniz's Paris Mathematics out of the Pre-Paris Metaphysics.O. Bradley Bassler - 1999 - Studia Leibnitiana 31 (2):160-180.
    Dieser Artikel konzentriert sich auf zwei der frühesten Schriften aus Leibniz' Pariser Zeit, die „Accessio ad Arithmeticam Infinitorum“ und die „De Minimo et Maximo. De corporibus et mentibus“ , und er beurteilt die Beziehung zwischen den in der AAI angegebenen mathematischen Ergebnissen und dem Wandel in Leibniz' Metaphysik, der in MM und in den damit in Verbindung stehenden Schriften und Briefen zum Ausdruck gebracht wird. Sowohl Leibniz' mathematische Ergebnisse als auch der Wandel seiner Haltung in der Metaphysik können als Resultat (...)
     
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    Lingua Universalis v. Calculus Ratiocinator. [REVIEW]O. Bradley Bassler - 1998 - Review of Metaphysics 52 (2):457-458.
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    Lingua Universalis v. Calculus Ratiocinator. [REVIEW]O. Bradley Bassler - 1998 - Review of Metaphysics 52 (2):457-458.
    The second volume of Jaakko Hintikka’s selected papers brings together essays from the decade 1986–96 concerning an often tacit distinction between “two competing overall views concerning our relationship to our language”. The first of these Hintikka characterizes as the view of language as lingua universalis, a single universal medium of communication; the second view, of language as calculus ratiocinator, is not meant to indicate that language is a “mere play with symbols” but rather that language “can be re interpreted like (...)
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    Review of J. Hintikka, The Principles of Mathematics Revisited[REVIEW]O. Bradley Bassler - 1997 - Review of Metaphysics 51 (2):424-425.
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    The Principles of Mathematics Revisited. [REVIEW]O. Bradley Bassler - 1997 - Review of Metaphysics 51 (2):424-425.
    In The Principles of Mathematics Revisited Jaakko Hintikka proposes nothing less than “to prepare the ground for the next revolution in the foundations of mathematics”. Hintikka’s proposal involves a rejection, inter alia, of the views that ordinary first-order logic is the basic elementary logic and that axiomatic set theory is a natural framework for theorizing about mathematics.
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    Book Review: J. P. Mayberry. Foundations of Mathematics in the Theory of Sets. [REVIEW]O. Bradley Bassler - 2005 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 46 (1):107-125.
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    Book Review: Mark van Atten. On Brouwer. [REVIEW]O. Bradley Bassler - 2006 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 47 (4):581-599.
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