Constructivity and Computability in Historical and Philosophical Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dubucs, Jacques (Editor), Bourdeau, Michel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 34
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Computers.; Mathematical logic.; Theory of Computation.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

Ranging from Alan Turing’s seminal 1936 paper to the latest work on Kolmogorov complexity and linear logic, this comprehensive new work clarifies the relationship between computability on the one hand and constructivity on the other. The authors argue that even though constructivists have largely sh...