Mathematics and Its Logics
Philosophical Essays
- Author: Geoffrey Hellman, University of Minnesota
- Date Published: November 2022
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- isbn: 9781108714006
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In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between different systems, and positing different frameworks serving different legitimate purposes. The essays refine and extend Hellman's modal-structuralist account of mathematics, developing a height-potentialist view of higher set theory which recognizes indefinite extendability of models and stages at which sets occur. In the first of three new essays written for this volume, Hellman shows how extendability can be deployed to derive the axiom of Infinity and that of Replacement, improving on earlier accounts; he also shows how extendability leads to attractive, novel resolutions of the set-theoretic paradoxes. Other essays explore advantages and limitations of restrictive systems - nominalist, predicativist, and constructivist. Also included are two essays, with Solomon Feferman, on predicative foundations of arithmetic.
Read more- Makes a strong case for pluralism in logic and mathematics, with different frameworks serving different legitimate purposes.
- Furthers the development of the modal-structural approach in philosophy and foundations of mathematics.
- Explores the key benefits and limitations of restrictive approaches to mathematics, nominalism, predicativism, and constructivism
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- Date Published: November 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108714006
- length: 294 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.431kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Structuralism, Extendability, and Nominalism:
1. Structuralism without Structures?
2. What Is Categorical Structuralism?
3. On the Significance of the Burali-Forti Paradox
4. Extending the Iterative Conception of Set: A Height-Potentialist Perspective
5. On Nominalism
6. Maoist Mathematics? Critical Study of John Burgess and Gideon Rosen, A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics (Oxford, 1997)
Part II. Predicative Mathematics and Beyond:
7. Predicative Foundations of Arithmetic (with Solomon Feferman)
8. Challenges to Predicative Foundations of Arithmetic (with Solomon Feferman)
9. Predicativism as a Philosophical Position
10. On the Gödel-Friedman Program
Part III. Logics of Mathematics:
11. Logical Truth by Linguistic Convention
12. Never Say 'Never'! On the Communication Problem between Intuitionism and Classicism
13. Constructive Mathematics and Quantum Mechanics: Unbounded Operators and the Spectral Theorem
14. If 'If-Then' Then What?
15. Mathematical Pluralism: The Case of Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis.
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