Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Theory of the Priority of the Ordinal over the Cardinal Numbers: Philosophical Principles of Mathematics, by Aron Gurwitsch

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Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973) was Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research from 1959–1973. Among his numerous publications, predominantly in phenomenology and Gestalt psychology, are Kants Theorie des Verstandes (Kluwer, 1990), Phenomenology and the Theory of Science (Northwestern University Press, 1974), Leibniz: Philosophie des Panlogismus (De Gruyter, 1974), Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology (Northwestern University Press, 1966), and The Field of Consciousness (Duquesne University Press, 1964).

Aron Gurwitsch, “Theory of the Priority of the Ordinal over the Cardinal Numbers: Philosophical Principles of Mathematics,” in “100 Years of Philosophy at the New School,” special issue, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40:2 (2019), pp. 365–410.

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