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ISBN:
9780511487347
Content:
John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through counter-criticism of their nominalist, intuitionist, relevantist, and other critics. This selection of his essays, which spans twenty-five years, addresses key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation. An introduction sets the essays in context and offers a retrospective appraisal of their aims. The volume will be of interest to a wide range of readers across philosophy of mathematics, logic, and philosophy of language
Content:
Numbers and ideas -- Why I am not a nominalist -- Mathematics and Bleak House -- Quine, analyticity, and philosophy of mathematics -- Being explained away -- E pluribus unum : plural logic and set theory -- Logicism : a new look -- Tarski's tort -- Which modal logic is the right one? -- Can truth out? -- Quinus ab omni naevo vindicatus -- Translating names -- Relevance : a fallacy? -- Dummett's case for intuitionism
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521880343
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521189675
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Print version ISBN 9780521880343
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511487347
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