From Dedekind to Goedel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics - Synthese Library 1996 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Biographical Note: Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965. Table of Contents: Preface; J. Hintikka. Tracking Contradictions in Geometry: The Idea of a Model from Kant to Hilbert; J. Webb. Standard vs. Nonstandard Distinction: A Watershed in the Foundations of Mathematics; J. Hintikka. Kronecker on the Foundations of Mathematics; H. M. Edwards. The Mysteries of Richard Dedekind; D. C. McCarty. Frege's Letters; C. Ortiz Hill. Frege's Principle; R. G. Heck Jr. Husserl and Hilbert on Completeness; C. Ortiz Hill. Hahn's Uber die nichtarchimedischen Grossensysteme and the Development of the Modern Theory of Magnitudes and Numbers to Measure Them; P. Ehrlich. The Origins of Russell's Paradox: Russell, Couturat, and the Antinomy of Infinite Number; G. H. Moore. The Emergence of Descriptive Set Theory; A. Kanamori. Chance against Constructibility; J. von Plato. Thoralf Skolem, Hermann Weyl and Das Gefuhl der Welt als begrenztes Ganzes'; W. Boos. On Tarski's Background; J. Wolenski. Wittgenstein and Ramsey on Identity; M. Marion. On Saying What You Really Want to Say: Wittgenstein, Godel, and the Trisection of the Angle; J. Floyd. Godel and Husserl; D. Follesdal. Index of Names. Index of Subjects and Titles."

Contributor Bio:  Hintikka, Jaakko Jaakko Hintikka is an internationally renowned philosopher known as the main architect of game-theoretical semantics and of the interrogative approach to inquiry, as well as one of the architects of distributive normal forms, possible-worlds semantics, tree methods, infinitely deep logics, and present-day-theory of inductive generalization. Currently a professor of philosophy at Boston University, he is the author of more than thirty books and has received a number of honors, most recently the Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy, for his pioneering contributions to the logical analysis for modal concepts, in particular the concepts of knowledge and belief. Contributor Bio:  Hintikka, J Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.