Foundations of Mathematics and other Logical Essays

Foundations of Mathematics and other Logical Essays

Author: Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1134528108

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This is Volume V in a series of eight on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. Originally published in 1931, this study offers a collection of logical essays around the topic of the foundations of mathematics. Though mathematical teaching was Ramsey's profession, philosophy was his vocation. Reared on the logic of Principia Mathematica, he was early to see the importance of Dr. Wittgenstein's work (in the translation of which he assisted); and his own published papers were largely based on this. But the previously unprinted essays and notes collected in this volume show him moving towards a kind of pragmatism, and the general treatise on logic upon which at various times he had been engaged was to have treated truth and knowledge as purely natural phenomena to be explained psychologically without recourse to distinctively logical relations.


Frank Ramsey

Frank Ramsey

Author: Cheryl Misak

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0191074810

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When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life.


F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers

F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers

Author: F. P. Ramsey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-07-27

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780521376211

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A compilation of all previously published writings on philosophy and the foundations of mathematics from the greatest of the generation of Cambridge scholars that included G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Maynard Keynes.


Mathematics in Philosophy

Mathematics in Philosophy

Author: Charles D. Parsons

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1501729322

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This important book by a major American philosopher brings together eleven essays treating problems in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. A common point of view, that mathematical thought is central to our thought in general, underlies the essays. In his introduction, Parsons articulates that point of view and relates it to past and recent discussions of the foundations of mathematics. Mathematics in Philosophy is divided into three parts. Ontology—the question of the nature and extent of existence assumptions in mathematics—is the subject of Part One and recurs elsewhere. Part Two consists of essays on two important historical figures, Kant and Frege, and one contemporary, W. V. Quine. Part Three contains essays on the three interrelated notions of set, class, and truth.


From Dedekind to Gödel

From Dedekind to Gödel

Author: Jaakko Hintikka

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 9401584788

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Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy. From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics illustrates the much greater variety of the actual developments in the foundations during the period covered. The viewpoints that serve this purpose included the foundational ideas of working mathematicians, such as Kronecker, Dedekind, Borel and the early Hilbert, and the development of notions like model and modelling, arbitrary function, completeness, and non-Archimedean structures. The philosophers discussed include not only the household names in logic, but also Husserl, Wittgenstein and Ramsey. Needless to say, such logically-oriented thinkers as Frege, Russell and Gödel are not entirely neglected, either. Audience: Everybody interested in the philosophy and/or history of mathematics will find this book interesting, giving frequently novel insights.


Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century

Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century

Author: Charles Parsons

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-03-10

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0674419499

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In these selected essays, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the past century: Brouwer, Hilbert, Bernays, Weyl, Gödel, Russell, Quine, Putnam, Wang, and Tait.