Mathematics, models, and modality selected philosophical essays
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 includin...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2008
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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