Harmony and Paradox : Intensional Aspects of Proof-Theoretic Semantics / by Luca Tranchini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tranchini, Luca.

Series:

Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, 2212-7313 ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Machine theory.

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory.

Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

Local Subjects:

Logic.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory.

Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This open access book investigates the role played by identity of proofs in proof-theoretic semantics. It develops a conception of proof-theoretic semantics as primarily concerned with the relationship between proofs (understood as abstract entities) and derivations (the linguistic representations of proofs). It demonstrates that identity of proof is a key both to clarify some —still not wholly understood— notions at the core of proof-theoretic semantics, such as harmony; and to broaden the range of the phenomena which can be analyzed using the tools of this semantic paradigm, so as to include for instance paradoxes. The volume covers topics such as the philosophical significance of different criteria of identity of proofs, and adequacy conditions for an intensional account of the notion of harmony. The author also examines the Prawitz-Tennant analysis of paradoxes by investigating on the one hand the prospects of turning it into a theory of meaning for paradoxical languages, and on the other hand two distinct kinds of phenomena, first observed by Crabbe and Ekman, showing that the Tennant-Prawitz criterion for paradoxicality overgenerates. This volume is of interest to scholars in formal and philosophical logic.

Contents:

Part 1. Harmony. Chapter 1. Harmony via reductions and expansions

Chapter 2. Identity of proofs

Chapter 3. Towards an intensional notion of harmony

Part 2. Paradox

Chapter 4. Paradoxes: a natural deduction approach

Chapter 5. Validity, sense and denotation in the face of paradoxes

Chapter 6. Two kinds of difficulties

Conclusion. .

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783031469213

OCLC:

1431059891