Language, Truth and Logic in Mathematics

1997
ISBN: 978-0-7923-4766-8
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 250 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1210 g

Reihe: Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers

One can distinguish, roughly speaking, two different approaches to the philosophy of mathematics. On the one hand, some philosophers (and some mathematicians) take the nature and the results of mathematicians' activities as given, and go on to ask what philosophical morals one might perhaps find in their story. On the other hand, some philosophers, logicians and mathematicians have tried or are trying to subject the very concepts which mathematicians are using in their work to critical scrutiny. In practice this usually means scrutinizing the logical and linguistic tools mathematicians wield. Such scrutiny can scarcely help relying on philosophical ideas and principles. In other words it can scarcely help being literally a study of language, truth and logic in mathematics, albeit not necessarily in the spirit of AJ. Ayer. As its title indicates, the essays included in the present volume represent the latter approach. In most of them one of the fundamental concepts in the foundations of mathematics and logic is subjected to a scrutiny from a largely novel point of view. Typically, it turns out that the concept in question is in need of a revision or reconsideration or at least can be given a new twist. The results of such a re-examination are not primarily critical, however, but typically open up new constructive possibilities. The consequences of such deconstructions and reconstructions are often quite sweeping, and are explored in the same paper or in others.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hintikka, Jaakko

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Grundlagen der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Mathematische Logik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What Is Elementary Logic? Independence-Friendly Logic as the True Core Area of Logic.- 2. A Revolution in Logic?.- 3. A Revolution in the Foundations of Mathematics?.- 4. Is There Completeness in Mathematics after Gödel?.- 5. Hilbert Vindicated?.- 6. Standard vs. Nonstandard Distinction: A Watershed in the Foundations of Mathematics.- 7. Standard vs. Nonstandard Logic: Higher-Order, Modal, and First-Order Logics.- 8. The Skeleton in Frege’s Cupboard: The Standard versus Nonstandard Distinction.- 9. An Alternative Concept of Computability.- 10. What is the Logic of Parallel Processing?.- 11. Model Minimization — An Alternative to Circumscription.- 12. New Foundations for Mathematical Theories.

Über Autor(innen)

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.