In the light of logic
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Author
Publication
1998 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
85,000 words, Guess
Page Count
340 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL702348M
- ISBN-100195080300
- OCLC Control Number38144368
- OCLC Control Numberlightlogic00fefe
- Library of Congress Control Number97051336
and 2 more
- LibraryThing354625
- Goodreads3182911
Classifications
- DDC511.3
- LCCQA9.2 .F44 1998
Description
In this collection of essays written over a period of twenty years, Solomon Feferman explains advanced results in modern logic and employs them to cast light on significant problems in the foundations of mathematics. Most troubling among these is the revolutionary way in which Georg Cantor elaborated the nature of the infinite, and in doing so helped transform the face of twentieth-century mathematics. Feferman details the development of Cantorian concepts and the foundational difficulties they engendered. He argues that the freedom provided by Cantorian set theory was purchased at a heavy philosophical price, namely adherence to a form of mathematical platonism that is difficult to support.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Logic and computation in philosophy
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