Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics

This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to P...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Outstanding Contributions to Logic, 9
Subjects:
Mathematical logic.
Philosophy and science.
Logic.
ISBN:9783319962740
ISSN:2211-2758 ;
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Memories of Hilary Putnam (Roy T Cook)
  • Chapter 2. Bibliography of Putnam's Writings in Logic & Mathematics (Roy T Cook)
  • Part I: Logic and the Philosophy of Logic
  • Chapter 3. Logic, Empiricism, and Translation (Roy T Cook)
  • Chapter 4. Putnam's Theorem on the Complexity of Models (Warren Goldfarb)
  • Chapter 5. Extendability and Paradox (G. Hellman)
  • Chapter 6. The Metaphysics of Model-theoretic Arguments (Kate Hodeson)
  • Chapter 7. Normativity and Mechanism (Tim McCarthy)
  • Chapter 8. Changing the Subject: Quine, Putnam and Waismann (Stewart Shapiro)
  • Part II: Mathematics, Foundations, and Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Chapter 9. Putnam on Foundations: Models, Modals, Muddles (John Burgess)
  • Chapter 10. Pragmatic Platonism (Martin Davis)
  • Chapter 11. Abstraction, Axiomatization, & Rigor: Pasch & Hilbert (Mic Detlefsen)
  • Chapter 12. Concrete Mathematical Incompleteness: Emulation Theory (Harvey Friedman)
  • Chapter 13. Putnam's Constructivization Argument (Akihiro Kanimori)
  • Chapter 14. Putnam on Mathematics as Modal Logic (Oystein Linnebo).

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