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Between logic and intuition : essays in honor of Charles Parsons / edited by Gila Sher, Richard Tieszen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: German Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: 1 online resource (342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511570681 (ebook)
Other title:
  • Between Logic & Intuition
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 510/.1 21
LOC classification:
  • QA9.A5 B489 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Paradox revisited I: truth, Paradox revisited II: sets -- a case of all or none? / Hilary Putnam -- Truthlike and truthful operators / Arnold Koslow -- 'Everything' / Vann McGee -- On second-order logic and natural language / James Higginbotham -- The logical roots of indeterminacy / Gila Sher -- The logic of full belief / Isaac Levi -- Immediacy and the birth of reference in Kant: the case for space / Carl J. Posy -- Geometry, construction and intuition in Kant and his successors / Michael Friedman -- Parsons on mathematical intuition and obviousness / Michael D. Resnik -- Gödel and Quine on meaning and mathematics / Richard Tieszen -- Must we believe in set theory? / George Boolos -- Cantor's Grundlagen and the paradoxes of set theory / W.W. Tait -- Ferge, the natural numbers, and natural kinds / Mark Steiner -- A theory of sets and classes / Penelope Maddy -- Challenges to predicative foundations of arithmetic / Solomon Feferman and Geoffrey Hellman.
Summary: 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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Paradox revisited I: truth, Paradox revisited II: sets -- a case of all or none? / Hilary Putnam -- Truthlike and truthful operators / Arnold Koslow -- 'Everything' / Vann McGee -- On second-order logic and natural language / James Higginbotham -- The logical roots of indeterminacy / Gila Sher -- The logic of full belief / Isaac Levi -- Immediacy and the birth of reference in Kant: the case for space / Carl J. Posy -- Geometry, construction and intuition in Kant and his successors / Michael Friedman -- Parsons on mathematical intuition and obviousness / Michael D. Resnik -- Gödel and Quine on meaning and mathematics / Richard Tieszen -- Must we believe in set theory? / George Boolos -- Cantor's Grundlagen and the paradoxes of set theory / W.W. Tait -- Ferge, the natural numbers, and natural kinds / Mark Steiner -- A theory of sets and classes / Penelope Maddy -- Challenges to predicative foundations of arithmetic / Solomon Feferman and Geoffrey Hellman.

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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