The Realism-Antirealism Debate in the Age of Alternative Logics

by Shahid Rahman

Book Overview

The relation between logic and knowledge has been at the heart of a lively debate since the 1960s. On the one hand, the epistemic approaches based their formal arguments in the mathematics of Brouwer and intuitionistic logic. Following Michael Dummett, they started to call themselves 'antirealists'. Others persisted with the formal background of the Frege-Tarski tradition, where Cantorian set theory is linked via model theory to classical logic. Jaakko...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400719221
• ISBN13: 9789400719224
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"