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Mathematics, models, and modality : selected philosophical essays / John P. Burgess.
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Burgess, John P., 1948-
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2008.
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xiii, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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QA8.6 .B87 2008
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Philosophy
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
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Summary note
This selection of Burgess's essays, which spans 25 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-296) and index.
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.
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ISBN
9780521880343 ((hbk.))
0521880343 ((hbk.))
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2008297882
OCLC
174130602
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