<p>This volume honours the life and work of Solomon Feferman, one of the most prominent mathematical logicians of the latter half of the 20th century. In the collection of essays presented here, researchers examine Fefermanβs work on mathematical as well as specific methodological and philosophical
Feferman on foundations. Logic, mathematics, philosophy
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- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 617
- Series
- Outstanding Contributions to Logic 13
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content: Intro
Foreword
Preface
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: Solomon Feferman's Autobiography from 1928 to 1981 and Extensions
Part A: An Intellectual (Mostly) Autobiography
Part B: Solomon Feferman's CV
Part C: Active Projects of 2016
C1. Logic, Mathematics and Conceptual Structuralism
C2. Foundations of Explicit Mathematics
C3. Many-sorted First-order Model Theory as a Conceptual Framework for Biological and Other Complex Dynamical Systems
C4. Semi-intuitionistic Theories of Sets
Solomon Feferman Publications
Part I Mathematical Logic. From Choosing Elements to Choosing Concepts: The Evolution of Feferman's Work in Model Theory1 Logic When Feferman Entered the Field
2 The Feferman-Vaught Theorem
3 Applications of Interpolation Theorems
4 The Concept of Model Theory
References
Feferman on Computability
1 Inductive Schemata and Recursively Continuous Functionals
2 A New Approach to Abstract Data Types, Parts I and II
3 Computation on ADTs: The Extensional Approach
4 About and Around Computing over the Reals
5 Conclusion
References
On the Computability of the Fan Functional
1 Introduction
2 Background. 7 Defining the Bachmann Hierarchy by Functionals of Higher TypeReferences
The Interpretation Existence Lemma
1 Introduction
1.1 Historical Remarks
1.2 Interpretation Existence Without Induction
1.3 What Is in the Paper?
1.4 What Is Not in the Paper?
1.5 Prerequisites
2 Basic Notions and Facts
2.1 Theories
2.2 Translations and Interpretations
2.3 Provability, Arithmetization, Complexity
2.4 Sequential Theories
2.5 Shortening Cuts
3 The Interpretation Existence Lemma
3.1 Auxiliary Theories
3.2 The Theorem and Its Proof
3.3 Extending the Target Theory to a Sequential Theory. 3.4 An Equivalent of sf(V)3.5 Treatment of Numerals
3.6 The Collapse
3.7 The Second Incompleteness Theorem
4 Characterization Theorems and The World of
4.1 ast, n
4.2 ast, ast
4.3 ast, infty
5 Examples
5.1 End-Extensions
5.2 Properties of Degree Structures
5.3 The Interpretability of Inconsistency
References
Tiered Arithmetics
1 Introduction
2 Representing Algorithms in Linear Two-Sorted Arithmetic
2.1 The Term Systems T(
) and LT(
)
2.2 The Theories A(
) and LA(
)
2.3 Treesort
2.4 Treesort in LA(
)+ Flatten
3 Transfinitely Iterated Tiering.
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