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Benacerraf and his critics / edited by Adam Morton and Stephen P. Stich.
Van Pelt Library QA29.B515 B46 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Philosophers and their critics
- Philosophers and their critics ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benacerraf, Paul.
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Ma. : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
- Contents:
- Part I Platonism and Mathematical Truth
- 1 What Mathematical Truth Could Not Be - I / Paul Benacerraf 9
- 2 The Legacy of 'Mathematical Truth' / Penelope Maddy 60
- 3 Prospects for Platonism / Steven J. Wagner 73
- Part II Indeterminacy Arguments
- 4 On What Possible Worlds Could Not Be / Robert Stalnaker 103
- 5 Skepticism about Numbers and Indeterminacy Arguments / Jerrold J. Katz 119
- Part III Logicism
- 6 On the Proof of Frege's Theorem / George Boolos 143
- 7 Logicism 2000: A Mini-manifesto / Richard Jeffrey 160
- Part IV Mathematics and Language
- 8 Shadows of Remembered Ancestors: Mathematics as the Epitome of Story-telling / Richard E. Grandy 167
- 9 Wittgenstein: Mathematics, Regularities, and Rules / Mark Steiner 190
- 10 Mathematics as Language / Adam Morton 213
- Part V Infinity
- 11 Infinite Pains: The Trouble with Supertasks / John Earman, John D. Norton 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0631192689
- OCLC:
- 33335642
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