By Professor of Philosophy Dale Jacquette

This examine of Hume's philosophy of arithmetic seriously examines his objections to the concept that of infinity in its ancient context as a made from Enlightenment thought of data, and assesses the clients of his strict finitism within the mild of up to date arithmetic.

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