Mathematics in Philosophy : : Selected Essays /

Mathematics in Philosophy : : Selected Essays / / Charles D. Parsons.

This important book by a major American philosopher brings together eleven essays treating problems in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. A common point of view, that mathematical thought is central to our thought in general, underlies the essays. In his introduction, Parsons articulates that...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Parsons, Charles D.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 2 line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Preface to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Mathematics, Logic, and Ontology
  • 1. Ontology and Mathematics
  • 2. A Plea for Substitutional Quantification
  • 3. Informal Axiomatization, Formalization, and the Concept of Truth
  • PART TWO. Interpretations
  • 4. Infinity and Kant's Conception of the "Possibility of Experience"
  • 5. Kant's Philosophy of Arithmetic
  • 6. Frege's Theory of Number
  • 7. Quine on· the Philosophy of Mathematics
  • PART THREE. Sets, Classes, and Truth
  • 8. Sets and Classes
  • 9. The Liar Paradox
  • 10. What Is the Iterative Conception of Set?
  • 11. Sets and Modality
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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