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A reconstruction of the philosophical thought of Henri Poincare, the mathematician who founded the field of topology and made important contributions to theoretical physics. It presents his thought as a unified system, reconciling apparent conflicts and examining its potential shortcomings.

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As notions of postmodernism and deconstruction have become exceedingly fashionable, scholars have attempted to remake epistemology as a subjectivist enterprise. This book deplores this state of affairs and attempts to correct it by reviving rational metaphysics as well as some of the ideas of the Vienna circle.