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Mathematics, models, and modality : selected philosophical essays /
This selection of Burgess's essays, which spans 25 years, addresses key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation. An introduction sets the essays in context and offers a retrospective appraisal of their aims.
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Numbers and ideas
- Why I am not a nominalist
- Mathematics and Bleak House
- Quine, analyticity, and philosophy of mathematics
- Being explained away
- E pluribus unum : plural logic and set theory
- Logicism : a new look
- Tarski's tort
- Which modal logic is the right one?
- Can truth out?
- Quinus ab omni naevo vindicatus
- Translating names
- Relevance : a fallacy?
- Dummett's case for intuitionism.