Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics
This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to P...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
| Series: | Outstanding Contributions to Logic
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Memories of Hilary Putnam (Roy T Cook)
- Chapter 2. Bibliography of Putnam’s Writings in Logic & Mathematics (Roy T Cook)
- Part I: Logic and the Philosophy of Logic
- Chapter 3. Logic, Empiricism, and Translation (Roy T Cook)
- Chapter 4. Putnam’s Theorem on the Complexity of Models (Warren Goldfarb)
- Chapter 5. Extendability and Paradox (G. Hellman)
- Chapter 6. The Metaphysics of Model-theoretic Arguments (Kate Hodeson)
- Chapter 7. Normativity and Mechanism (Tim McCarthy)
- Chapter 8. Changing the Subject: Quine, Putnam and Waismann (Stewart Shapiro)
- Part II: Mathematics, Foundations, and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Chapter 9. Putnam on Foundations: Models, Modals, Muddles (John Burgess)
- Chapter 10. Pragmatic Platonism (Martin Davis)
- Chapter 11. Abstraction, Axiomatization, & Rigor: Pasch & Hilbert (Mic Detlefsen)
- Chapter 12. Concrete Mathematical Incompleteness: Emulation Theory (Harvey Friedman)
- Chapter 13. Putnam’s Constructivization Argument (Akihiro Kanimori)
- Chapter 14. Putnam on Mathematics as Modal Logic (Oystein Linnebo)