Truth, Existence and Explanation

FilMat 2016 Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics
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ISBN-13:
9783030066437
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.12.2018
Seiten:
284
Autor:
Gabriele Pulcini
Gewicht:
435 g
Format:
235x155x16 mm
Serie:
334, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

This book contains more than 15 essays that explore issues in truth, existence, and explanation. It features cutting-edge research in the philosophy of mathematics and logic.
Covers a host of intriguing issues concerning the three key notions of existence, truth, and explanation Features cutting-edge research from renowned philosophers, mathematicians, and younger scholarsOffers an insightful contribution to the lively debate in this interdisciplinary field of inquiry
Part I: Truth and expressiveness.- Chapter 1. Some Remarks on True Undecidable Sentences.- Chapter 2. Penrose's New Argument and Paradox.- Chapter 3. On expressive power over arithmetic.- Chapter 4. Intensionality in Mathematics.- Chapter 5. Deflationary truth is a logical notion.- Chapter 6. Making sense of Deflationism from a formal perspective: Conservativity and Relative Interpretability.- Part II: Structures, existence, and explanation.- Chapter 7. Structure and Structures.- Chapter 8. Towards a Better Understanding of Mathematical Understanding.- Chapter 9. The explanatory power of a new proof: Henkin's completeness proof.- Chapter 10. Can proofs by mathematical induction be explanatory?.- Chapter 11. Ontological Commitment and the Import of Mathematics.- Chapter 12. Applicability Problems Generalized.- Chapter 13. Church-Turing Thesis, in Practice.- Chapter 14. Existence vs Conceivability in Aristotle: Are Straight Lines Infinitely Extendible?.

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