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Zusatztext Heck's writing style contains the kind of intellectual honesty that I really admire. ... I can strongly recommend this collection, without any hesitation, to anyone interested in the philosophy of logic, of mathematics, or in early analytic philosophy more generally. Informationen zum Autor Richard G. Heck Jr is Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University, where he has taught since 2005. He taught at Harvard University from 1991 to 2005 and was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received his PhD in 1991; at New College, Oxford (BPhil, 1987), where he was a Marshall Scholar; and at Duke University (BS, 1985). Professor Heck has worked on the philosophies of language, logic, mathematics, and mind, and is is one of the world's foremost experts on the philosophy of Gottlob Frege. Klappentext Richard Heck explores a key idea in the work of the great philosopher/logician Gottlob Frege: that the axioms of arithmetic can be logically derived from a single principle. Heck uses the theorem to explore historical! philosophical! and technical issues in philosophy of mathematics and logic! relating them to key areas of contemporary philosophy. Zusammenfassung Richard Heck explores a key idea in the work of the great philosopher/logician Gottlob Frege: that the axioms of arithmetic can be logically derived from a single principle. Heck uses the theorem to explore historical, philosophical, and technical issues in philosophy of mathematics and logic, relating them to key areas of contemporary philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Editorial Notes 1: Frege's Theorem: An Overview 2: The Development of Arithmetic 3: Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik §§82-83 4: Frege's Principle 5: Julius Caesar and Basic Law V 6: The Julius Caesar Objection 7: Cardinality, Counting, and Equinumerosity 8: Syntactic Reductionism 9: The Existence of Abstract Objects 10: The Consistency of Contextual Definitions 11: Finitude and Hume's Principle 12: A Logic for Frege's Theorem Index ...
