Philosophy's Loss of Logic to Mathematics An Inadequately Understood Take-Over /

• Main Author: Park, Woosuk (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 43
• Subjects: Logic.; Mathematics.; History.; Mathematics-Philosophy.; Mathematical logic.; Epistemology.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Philosophy of Mathematics.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

This book offers a historical explanation of important philosophical problems in logic and mathematics, which have been neglected by the official history of modern logic. It offers extensive information on Gottlob Frege's logic, discussing which aspects of his logic can be considered truly inno...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Frege's Distinction Between "Falling Under" and "Subordination"
• Scotus, Frege and Bergmann
• Zermelo and the Axiomatic Method
• Between Bernays and Carnap
• On the Motivations of Goedel's Ontological Proof
• The Ontological Regress of Maddy's Mathematical Naturalism
• What If Haecceity Is Not a Property?
• Epilogue.