Goodbye, Descartes

The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind

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Author:

Devlin, Keith J.

ISBN:

978-0-471-14216-4

Publication Date:

Jan 1997

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Imprint:

Wiley

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $27.95

Book Description:

Now in paper! The story of our centuries-old quest to understand how we think. What are the laws of human thought? How do we reason so well? Why can we communicate so effectively? After more than two thousand years of inquiry, we still can2t explain exactly how our minds perform these incredible feats.

Book Details

Pages:	320
Detailed Subjects:	Philosophy / Mind & Body
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	6.435 x 9.438 x 1.014 Inches
Book Weight:	1.5 Pounds

Author Biography

Devlin, Keith J. (Author)

Born in England in 1947 and living in America since 1987, Keith Devlin has written more than 20 books and numerous research articles on various elements of mathematics. From 1983 to 1989, he wrote a column on for the Manchester (England) Guardian. The collected columns are published in All the Math That's Fit to Print (1994) and cover a wide range of topics from calculating travel expenses to calculating pi. His book Logic and Information (1991) is an introduction to situation theory and situation semantics for mathematicians.

Co-author of the PBS Nova episode "A Mathematical Mystery Tour," he is also the author of Devlin's Angle, a column on the Mathematical Association of America's electronic journal.

Devlin lives in California, where he is dean of the school of science at Saint Mary's College in Morgana. He is currently studying the use of mathematics to analyze communication and information flow in the workplace.

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