Overview
- Offers new approaches to Benacerraf's dilemma
- Includes original version of "Mathematical Truth" (1968) by Paul Benacerraf
- Presents new perspectives on logicism, structuralism and supertasks?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 28)
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Two yet unpublished essays by Benacerraf have been included in the volume: an early version of “Mathematical Truth” from 1968 and an essay on “What Numbers Could Not Be” from the mid 1970’s. A complete chronological bibliography of Benacerraf’s work to 2016 is provided.
Essays by Jody Azzouni, Paul Benacerraf, Justin Clarke-Doane, Sébastien Gandon, Brice Halimi, Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia, Mary Leng, Antonio León-Sánchez and Ana C. León-Mejía, Marco Panza, Fabrice Pataut, Philippe de Rouilhan, Andrea Sereni, and Stewart Shapiro.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Logicism, Fictionalism and Structuralism
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Supertasks
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Retrospection: Mathematical Truth, Mathematical Objects
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Truth, Objects, Infinity
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Paul Benacerraf
Editors: Fabrice Pataut
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45980-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45978-3Published: 09 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83412-2Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45980-6Published: 27 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 309
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Ontology