This volume offers a selection of the most interesting and important work from recent years in the philosophy of mathematics, which has always been closely linked to, and has exerted a significant influence upon, the main stream of analytical philosophy. The issues discussed are of interest throughout philosophy, and no mathematical expertise is required of the reader. Contributors include W.V. Quine, W.D. Hart, Michael Dummett, Charles Parsons, Paul Benacerraf, Penelope Maddy, W.W. Tait, Hilary Putnam, George Boolos, Daniel Isaacson, Stewart Shapiro, and Hartry Field.
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`Splendid collection of essays ... Hart has done a great service to students of the subject by assembling some of the most significant contributions to the literature made in the past 20 years or so ... this collection steers a way through the challenging and fascinating philosophical issues raised by mathematics as well as any other I know.' Times Higher Education Supplement
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W. D. Hart is at University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Although this symposium is entitled 'Mathematical Truth', I will also discuss issues which are somewhat broader but which nevertheless have the notion of mathematical truth at their core, which themselves depend on how truth in mathematics is properly explained. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eliminative structuralist programme, nominalistic physics, deductive conservativeness, eliminative structuralism, standard concrete model, defining logical truth, metalinguistic conception, intuitionistic truth, other mathematical statements, higher set theory, pure mathematical objects, representing homomorphism, cognitive synonymy, indispensability thesis, fact that the axioms force, interchangeability salva veritate, platonistic interpretation, canonical proof, nominalistic theory, ordinary consistency, modal analogue, mathematical claims, modal knowledge, platonistic view, substitutional quantifier Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Philosophy, Mathematical Logic, Paul Benacerraf, Philosophical Review, Cambridge University Press, Cantor's Continuum Problem, Hilary Putnam, Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, North Holland, Basic Laws, Charles Parsons, Hartry Field, Princeton University Press, Conditional Possibility Principle, Richard Nixon, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Harold Hodes, University of Chicago Press, David Hilbert, Jon Barwise, Open Court, Organization of Behavior, Oxford Blackwell New!
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Although this symposium is entitled 'Mathematical Truth', I will also discuss issues which are somewhat broader but which nevertheless have the notion of mathematical truth at their core, which themselves depend on how truth in mathematics is properly explained. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eliminative structuralist programme, nominalistic physics, deductive conservativeness, eliminative structuralism, standard concrete model, defining logical truth, metalinguistic conception, intuitionistic truth, other mathematical statements, higher set theory, pure mathematical objects, representing homomorphism, cognitive synonymy, indispensability thesis, fact that the axioms force, interchangeability salva veritate, platonistic interpretation, canonical proof, nominalistic theory, ordinary consistency, modal analogue, mathematical claims, modal knowledge, platonistic view, substitutional quantifier Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Philosophy, Mathematical Logic, Paul Benacerraf, Philosophical Review, Cambridge University Press, Cantor's Continuum Problem, Hilary Putnam, Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, North Holland, Basic Laws, Charles Parsons, Hartry Field, Princeton University Press, Conditional Possibility Principle, Richard Nixon, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Harold Hodes, University of Chicago Press, David Hilbert, Jon Barwise, Open Court, Organization of Behavior, Oxford Blackwell New!
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- Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings by Paul and Hilary Putnam Benacerraf on 14 pages
- Mathematics in Philosophy: Selected Essays by Charles Parsons on 7 pages
- Ontological Relativity by W. V. Quine on 4 pages
- Philosophy of logic (Harper essays in philosophy) by Hilary Putnam on 4 pages
- Ontology and the Vicious Circle Principle by Charles S. Chihara on 4 pages
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- Conceptual Roots of Mathematics (International Library of Philosophy) by J.R. Lucas on page 18, and page 340
- Constructing Mathematical Know (Studies in Mathematics Education Series) by Paul Ernest on page 71, and page 272
- Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kants Moral and Religious Philosophy (International Library of Philosophy) by A.W. Moore in Back Matter
- Classical Mathematical Logic: The Semantic Foundations of Logic by Richard L. Epstein in Back Matter
- The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind (Representation and Mind) by Ned Block in Back Matter
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