Mathematics, models, and modality : selected philosophical essays
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical Mathematics e-böcker
Cambridge University Press
2008
EISBN 9780511384356
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.
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.
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.
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.
