Editors:
- 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 scholars
- Offers an insightful contribution to the lively debate in this interdisciplinary field of inquiry
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 334)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Truth and Expressiveness
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Front Matter
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Structures, Existence, and Explanation
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Front Matter
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About this book
Renowned philosophers, mathematicians, and younger scholars provide an insightful contribution to the lively debate in this interdisciplinary field of inquiry. The essays look at realism vs. anti-realism as well as inflationary vs. deflationary theories of truth. The contributors also consider mathematical fictionalism, structuralism, the nature and role of axioms, constructive existence, and generality. In addition, coverage also looks at the explanatory role of mathematics and the philosophical relevance of mathematical explanation.
The book will appeal to a broad mathematical and philosophical audience. It contains work from FilMat, the Italian Network for the Philosophy of Mathematics. These papers collected here were also presented at their second international conference, held at the University of Chieti-Pescara, May 2016.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Mario Piazza
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Department of Mathematics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Gabriele Pulcini
About the editors
Gabriele Pulcini is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mathematics of the New University of Lisbon. He worked as postdoctoral fellow in many academic institutions, including the Department of Computer Science at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris and the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and History of Science (State University of Campinas, Brazil). He obtained his PhD at the University of Rome 3 and the University of Aix-Marseille 2, jointly. His fields of research and interest range from the proof theory of classical and non-classical logics to the philosophy of logic, as well as the philosophy of mathematics. He is author of many research papers appeared in the most important journals in the field such as the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic and the Journal of Logic and Computation. Since 2012, he is member of the Italian Network for the Philosophy of Mathematics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Truth, Existence and Explanation
Book Subtitle: FilMat 2016 Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Editors: Mario Piazza, Gabriele Pulcini
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93342-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93341-2Published: 08 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06643-7Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93342-9Published: 24 October 2018
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Epistemology, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages