The works of Gödel, Tarski, Kleene and Church are fundamental to our understanding of the foundations of mathematics. In Deducibility and Decidability, their results and significance are presented in a new, unified manner.
The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's en..
Substance: Its Nature and Existence is one of the first non-technical, accessible guides to this central problem and will be of great use to students ..
This book introduces an important group of logics that have come to be known as substructural. It is the first to survey the important impact this cla..
This book forces us to reconsider contemporary approaches to the semantics of proper names and definite descriptions through a historically sensitive ..
Since its publication in 1989, David Sanford's If P Then Q has become one of the most widely respected works in the field of conditionals. This new ed..
Philosophy of Probability: Contemporary Readings is the first anthology of essential readings in this important area of philosophy. Each section inclu..
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. Lucas shows us that the philosophy of mathematics is ac..
First published in 1971, Professor Putnam's essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, t..
In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalo..
A collection of essays from distinguished contributors looking at why it is that mathematical proof is given precedence over other forms of mathematic..
This book offers a comprehensive account of logic that addresses fundamental issues concerning the nature and foundations of the discipline. It presen..