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Truth Through Proof Alan Weir (Professor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow)

Truth Through Proof By Alan Weir (Professor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow)

Truth Through Proof by Alan Weir (Professor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow)


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Truth Through Proof defends an anti-platonist philosophy of mathematics derived from game formalism. Alan Weir aims to develop a more satisfactory successor to game formalism utilising a widely accepted, broadly neo-Fregean framework, in which the proposition expressed by an utterance is a function of both sense and background circumstance.

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Truth Through Proof: A Formalist Foundation for Mathematics by Alan Weir (Professor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow)

Truth Through Proof defends an anti-platonist philosophy of mathematics derived from game formalism. Classic formalists claimed implausibly that mathematical utterances are truth-valueless moves in a game. Alan Weir aims to develop a more satisfactory successor to game formalism utilising a widely accepted, broadly neo-Fregean framework, in which the proposition expressed by an utterance is a function of both sense and background circumstance. This framework allows for sentences whose truth-conditions are not representational, which are made true or false by conditions residing in the circumstances of utterances but not transparently in the sense. Applications to projectivism and fiction pave the way for the claim that mathematical utterances are made true or false by the existence of concrete proofs or refutations, though these truth-making conditions form no part of their sense or informational content. The position is compared with rivals, an account of the applicability of mathematics developed, and a new account of the nature of idealisation proffered in which it is argued that the finitistic limitations Goedel placed on proofs are without rational justification. Finally a non-classical logical system is provided in which excluded middle fails, yet enough logical power remains to recapture the results of standard mathematics.

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In this fascinating book, Weir defends a new account of what makes mathematical assertions objectively true or false. * Julian C. Cole, Philosophy in Review *

About Alan Weir (Professor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow)

Alan Weir is Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His main research interests have been in philosophy of logic and mathematics, but he has also written on philosophy of language, epistemology and the theory of perception.

Table of Contents

Introduction ; 1. Metaphysics ; 2. Ontological Reduction ; 3. Neo-formalism ; 4. Objections and Comparisons ; 5. Applying Mathematics ; 6. Proof Set in Concrete ; 7. Idealisation Naturalised ; 8. Logic ; Conclusion ; Appendix

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NPB9780199541492
9780199541492
0199541493
Truth Through Proof: A Formalist Foundation for Mathematics by Alan Weir (Professor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow)
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2010-10-14
296
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