Logic, Language, and Mathematics Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright

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Pub. Date: 2020-08-24
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Author Biography


Alexander Miller, University of Otago

Alexander Miller took his undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He then did his graduate work in philosophy at the universities of St. Andrews and Michigan. Miller is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago. Prior to this, he taught at Birmingham, Nottingham, Cardiff, and Macquarie.

Crispin Wright specializes in the philosophies of language and mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is Global Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling, and Regius Professor of Logic Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen. He has taught at Columbia, Michigan, Princeton, St. Andrews (where he was the first Wardlaw University Professor), Arch?, and Aberdeen (where he held the Regius Chair of Logic and was Director of the Northern Institute of Philosophy).

Table of Contents


Part I: Frege and Neo-Logicism
1. Generality and Objectivity in Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic, William Demopoulos
2. The Logic of Frege's Theorem, Richard Kimberly Heck
3. Logicism and Logical Consequence, Jim Edwards
4. Logicism and Second Order Logic, George Boolos
4a. Postscript, Richard Kimberly Heck
5. Solving the Caesar Problem--with Metaphysics, Gideon Rosen and Stephen Yablo
Part II: Vagueness
6. Vagueness and Intuitionistic Logic, Ian Rumfitt
7. Quandary and Intuitionism: Crispin Wright on Vagueness, Stephen Schiffer
Part III: Logic and Modality
8. Wright and Revisionism, Sanford Shieh
9. Inferentialism, Logicism, Harmony, and a Counterpoint, Neil Tennant
Part IV: Metaphysical Possibility
10. CCCP, Bob Hale
Replies by Crispin Wright
Foreword
Replies to Part I: Frege and Logicism
Replies to Part II: Intuitionism and the Sorites
Replies to Part III: Logical Revisionism
Replies to Part IV: The Epistemology of Metaphysical Possibility

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