The Hart, W. D. creator author. text enk 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). Examines the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years. Logic underwent a major renaissance beginning in the nineteenth century. Cantor almost tamed the infinite, and Frege aimed to undercut Kant by reducing mathematics to logic. These achievements were threatened by the paradoxes, like Russell's. This ferment generated excellent philosophy (and mathematics) by excellent philosophers (and mathematicians) up to World War II. This book provides a selective, critical history of the collaboration between logic and philosophy during this period. After World War II, mathematical logic became a recognized subdiscipline in mathematics departments, and consequently but unfortunately philosophers have lost touch with its monuments. This book aims to make four of them (consistency and independence of the continuum hypothesis, Post's problem, and Morley's theorem) more accessible to philosophers, making available the tools necessary for modern scholars of philosophy to renew a productive dialogue between logic and philosophy. W. D. Hart. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). BC15 .H37 2010 160.9 9780511779589 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779589 UkCbUP 100519 20180107143413.0 CR9780511779589