Between Logic and Intuition: Essays in Honor of Charles Parsons - Brossura

Sher, Gila

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521038251 ISBN 13: 9780521038256

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

Offers a conspectus of major trends in the philosophy of logic and mathematics.

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Descrizione del libro

This collection of essays offers a conspectus of major trends in the philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics. A distinguished group of philosophers addresses issues at the centre of debate. The volume includes Hilary Putnam's 1995 Alfred Tarski lectures.

Contenuti

Preface; Part I. Logic: 1. Paradox revisited I: truth; 2. Paradox revisited II: sets - a case of all or none? Hilary Putnam; 3. Truthlike and truthful operators Arnold Koslow; 4. 'Everything' Vann McGee; 5. On second-order logic and natural language James Higginbotham; 6. The logical roots of indeterminacy Gila Sher; 7. The logic of full belief Isaac Levi; Part II. Intuition: 8. Immediacy and the birth of reference in Kant: the case for space Carl J. Posy; 9. Geometry, construction and intuition in Kant and his successors Michael Friedman; 10. Parsons on mathematical intuition and obviousness Michael D. Resnik; 11. Gödel and Quine on meaning and mathematics Richard Tieszen; Part III. Numbers, Sets and Classes: 12. Must we believe in set theory? George Boolos; 13. Cantor's Grundlagen and the paradoxes of set theory W. W. Tait; 14. Frege, the natural numbers and natural kinds Mark Steiner; 15. A theory of sets and classes Penelope Maddy; 16. Challenges to predictive foundations of arithmetic Solomon Feferman and Geoffrey Hellman; Name index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521038251
• ISBN 13: 9780521038256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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