Infinity and truth /

This volume is based on the talks given at the Workshop on Infinity and Truth held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, from 25 to 29 July 2011. The chapters are by leading experts in mathematical and philosophical logic that examine various aspects of the fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Workshop on Infinity and Truth Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore, ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Chong, C.-T. (Chi-Tat), 1949- (Editor), Feng, Qi, 1955- (Editor), Slaman, T. A. (Theodore Allen), 1954- (Editor), Woodin, W. H. (W. Hugh) (Editor)
Format:	Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Jersey : World Scientific, 2014.
Series:	Lecture notes series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore ; volume 25.
Subjects:	Logic, Symbolic and mathematical > Congresses. Mathematics > Philosophy > Congresses. Set theory > Congresses. Axiomatic set theory > Congresses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Section I. Invited lectures. Absoluteness, truth, and quotients / Ilijas Farah
A multiverse perspective on the axiom of constructibility / Joel David Hamkins
Hilbert, Bourbaki and the scorning of logic / A.R.D. Mathias
Toward objectivity in mathematics / Stephen G. Simpson
Sort logic and foundations of mathematics / Jouko Väänänen
Reasoning about constructive concepts / Nik Weaver
Perfect infinities and finite approximation / Boris Zilber
Section II. Special session. An objective justification for actual infinity? / Stephen G. Simpson
Oracle questions / Theodore Slaman and W. Hugh Woodin.