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Francesca Biagioli: Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer

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  1. Even as those mentioned continue to break new ground on themes including the formulation and defense of ‘scientific philosophy’ and the Unity of Science program, they are joined by a group of researchers who bring formal expertise and historical sensibility to an expanded set of questions. Marco Giovanelli, Flavia Padovani, Michela Massimi, Katherine Brading, Elise Crull, David Hyder, Scott Edgar, Joshua Eisenthal, Matthias Neuber, and their allies focus on the history and philosophy of physics, physiology, or mathematics. Erich Reck, Georg Schiemer, Dirk Schlimm, Jeremy Heis, Audrey Yap, and Paula Cantù delve into structuralism and formalism in nineteenth and twentieth century mathematics. Martin Kusch, Pierre Keller, Samantha Matherne, Katherina Kinzel, Paul Roth, and Frederick Beiser are among the mainstays of a circle studying the philosophy of history itself during this period.

  2. A translation of Dedekind (1872) can be found in Dedekind (1963).

  3. There is no requirement of comprehensiveness in a project such as this one. I should mention that Flavia Padovani’s work on Hans Reichenbach on measurement and time would be an excellent complement to much of what is achieved in Space, Time, and Geometry, as would Elise Crull’s and Erik Banks’s work on Grete Hermann.

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Patton, L. Francesca Biagioli: Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer. J Gen Philos Sci 50, 311–315 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-019-09445-x

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