Cassirer and the Structural Turn in Modern Geometry

The paper investigates Ernst Cassirer’s structuralist account of geometrical knowledge developed in his Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff (1910). The aim here is twofold. First, to give a closer study of several developments in projective geometry that form the direct background for Cassirer’s ph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Georg Schiemer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MULPress 2018-02-01
Series:Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
Online Access:https://jhaponline.org/jhap/article/view/3439