Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hellman, Geoffrey (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Cook, Roy T. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Outstanding Contributions to Logic, 9
• Subjects: Mathematical logic.; Philosophy and science.; Logic.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Philosophy of Science.

This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to P...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Memories of Hilary Putnam (Roy T Cook)
• Chapter 2. Bibliography of Putnam's Writings in Logic & Mathematics (Roy T Cook)
• Part I: Logic and the Philosophy of Logic
• Chapter 3. Logic, Empiricism, and Translation (Roy T Cook)
• Chapter 4. Putnam's Theorem on the Complexity of Models (Warren Goldfarb)
• Chapter 5. Extendability and Paradox (G. Hellman)
• Chapter 6. The Metaphysics of Model-theoretic Arguments (Kate Hodeson)
• Chapter 7. Normativity and Mechanism (Tim McCarthy)
• Chapter 8. Changing the Subject: Quine, Putnam and Waismann (Stewart Shapiro)
• Part II: Mathematics, Foundations, and Philosophy of Mathematics
• Chapter 9. Putnam on Foundations: Models, Modals, Muddles (John Burgess)
• Chapter 10. Pragmatic Platonism (Martin Davis)
• Chapter 11. Abstraction, Axiomatization, & Rigor: Pasch & Hilbert (Mic Detlefsen)
• Chapter 12. Concrete Mathematical Incompleteness: Emulation Theory (Harvey Friedman)
• Chapter 13. Putnam's Constructivization Argument (Akihiro Kanimori)
• Chapter 14. Putnam on Mathematics as Modal Logic (Oystein Linnebo).