Logos and Mathema 2: Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

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• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Polish Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophical Humanities
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume consists of thirteen papers devoted to various problems of the philosophy of logic and mathematics. They can be divided into two groups. The first group contains papers devoted to some general problems of the philosophy of mathematics whereas the second group – papers devoted to the history of logic in Poland and to the work of Polish logicians and math-ematicians in the philosophy of mathematics and logic. Among considered problems are: meaning of reverse mathematics, proof in mathematics, the status of Church’s Thesis, phenomenology in the philosophy of mathematics, mathematics vs. theology, the problem of truth, philosophy of logic and mathematics in the interwar Poland.

✦ Table of Contents

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On the Philosophical Meaning of Reverse Mathematics
On the Distinction Proof–Truth in Mathematics
Some Historical, Philosophical and Methodological Remarks on Proof in Mathematics
The Status of Church’s Thesis (co-author: Jan Wolenski)
Between Theology and Mathematics. Nicholas of Cusa’s Philosophy of Mathematics
Phenomenological Ideas in the Philosophy of Mathematics. From Husserl to Gödel (co-author: Thomas Bedürftig)
Mathematical Foundations and Logic in Reborn Poland
Tarski and his Polish Predecessors on Truth (co-author: Jan Wolenski)
Benedykt Bornstein’s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics in the Warsaw School of Mathematical Logic
The philosophy of Mathematics and Logic in Cracow between the Wars
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics in the Lvov School of Mathematics
Cracow Circle and Its Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
Bibliography
Source Note
Index