Mathematics, Models, and Modality: Selected Philosophical Essays - Softcover

Burgess, John P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521189675 ISBN 13: 9780521189675

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

This selection of John Burgess's essays 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 interest readers in philosophy of mathematics, logic, and philosophy of language.

About the Author:

John P. Burgess is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University. He is co-author of A Subject With No Object with Gideon Rosen (1997) and Computability and Logic, 4th Edition with George S. Boolos and Richard C. Jeffrey (2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521189675
• ISBN 13: 9780521189675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316