The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cook, Roy T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 71
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Logic.; Philosophy and science.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematics, general.; Philosophy of Science.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

This volume collects together a number of important papers concerning both the method of abstraction generally and the use of particular abstraction principles to reconstruct central areas of mathematics along logicist lines. Gottlob Frege's original logicist project was, in effect, refuted by...