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Between Logic and Intuition: Essays in Honor of Charles Parsons

Editat de Gila Sher, Richard Tieszen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 mar 2000
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 contemporary debate: semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes, the set/class distinction, foundations of set theory, mathematical intuition and many others. The volume includes Hilary Putnam's 1995 Alfred Tarski lectures.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521650762
ISBN-10: 0521650763
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 5 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 162 x 238 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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.

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