Obscured by Clouds: a critical review of Adrian Moore’s ‘A History of the Infinite’

The Oxford philosopher Adrian Moore wrote a book on the philosophical and mathematical aspects of the infinite in 1990, which was a volume in the series ‘Problems of Philosophy’. In 2016 Moore developed a series of ten radio programmes for the BBC, broadcast in the autumn, with the title ‘A History of the Infinite’, which gave its arguments much more exposure than they ever had before.
I have spent many years studying Greek philosophy, and as a result I found both Moore’s arguments and his nar...