The realism-antirealism debate in the age of alternative logics / Shahid Rahman, Giuseppe Primiero, Mathieu Marion, editors
- Published
- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- xvi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Rahman, Shahid, 1956-, Primiero, Giuseppe, Marion, Mathieu, 1962-, and Dummett, Michael, 1925-2011
- Series
- Summary
- "The relation between logic and knowledge has been at the heart of a lively debate since the 1960s. On the one hand, the epistemic approaches based their formal arguments in the mathematics of Brouwer and intuitionistic logic. Following Michael Dummett, they started to call themselves 'antirealists'. Others persisted with the formal background of the Frege-Tarski tradition, where Cantorian set theory is linked via model theory to classical logic. Jaakko Hintikka tried to unify both traditions by means of what is now known as 'explicit epistemic logic'. Under this view, epistemic contents are introduced into the object language as operators yielding propositions from propositions, rather than as metalogical constraints on the notion of inference. The Realism-Antirealism debate has thus had three players: classical logicians, intuitionists and explicit epistemic logicians. The editors of the present volume believe that in the age of Alternative Logics, where manifold developments in logic happen at a breathtaking pace, this debate should be revisited. Contributors to this volume happily took on this challenge and responded with new approaches to the debate from both the explicit and the implicit epistemic point of view."--Page 4 of cover.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9789400719224 (hardback)
9400719221 (hardback)
9789400719231 (e-ISBN)
940071923X
9789400719231 - Collection
- Critical Philosophy of Race.
- Provenance
- Rare Books copy: From the library of Michael Dummett.
- Note
- Rare Books copy: Editor's presentation inscription to Michael Dummett on front flyleaf: "Montréal, X.2011, To Michael, Whose ideas inspired much of the content of this book, with warmest regards, Mathieu". Copy also includes a type-written letter to Michael Dummett, a photograph, and an off-print of the editor's paper all paper-clipped and laid in front.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Rare Books copy: Purchased with funds from the Hastings Libraries Endowment; 2014.
Rare Books copy: Purchased from Ruddi Thoemmes Rare Books; 2014. - Related Materials
- Ann Dummett papers, 1966-2012, bulk 1976-2012 (09466) housed at Pennsylvania State University Libraries' Eberly Family Special Collections Library. https://arks.libraries.psu.edu/ark:/42409/fa8ps6z
Michael Dummett papers, 1956-2012, bulk 1982-2006 (09526) housed at Pennsylvania State University Libraries' Eberly Family Special Collections Library. https://arks.libraries.psu.edu/ark:/42409/fa8gd1n
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