Mathematics and its logics: philosophical essays

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 refin...

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Main Author: Hellman, Geoffrey 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108657419
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108657419
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108657419
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108657419
Summary: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 extend]ability 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
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 286 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108657419
DOI:10.1017/9781108657419