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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2016

ISBN (Hardback): 9781137560865

ISBN (eBook): 9781137560872

Full citation:

Michael Huemer, Approaching infinity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Approaching infinity

Michael Huemer

Contents

The prevalence of the infinite

3-8

Six infinite regresses

9-16

Seventeen paradoxes of the infinite

17-38

Impossible infinite series

two false accounts

41-48

Actual and potential infinities

49-70

The Cantorian orthodoxy

71-90

Philosophical preliminaries

93-107

Sets

108-118

Numbers

119-142

Infinity

143-161

Space

John Drummond

162-175

Some paradoxes mostly resolved

176-228

Assessing infinite regress arguments

229-246

Conclusion

Amy E. Varela

247-260