Hao Wang
Subtitle: logician and philosopher
By: edited by Charles Parsons and Montgomery Link
Series: Texts in philosophy -- v. 16; Texts in philosophy -- v. 16.
Publisher: College Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781848900288
Subjects: Logicians; Biography
Description: "Hao Wang (1921-1995) was a prolific researcher and writer in mathematical logic, computer science, and philosophy...This volume of essays covers to some extent each of these fields of Wang's activity but with greatest emphasis on philosophy." From back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hao Wang  -- Charles Parsons; title: Hao Wang's Chinese writings  -- Richard Jandovitz and Montgomery Link; title: Memories related to Professor Jin Yuilin  -- Hao Wang; title: From Kumming to New York  -- Hao Wang; title: Remembering Wang Hao  -- He Zhaowu; title: Collaborating with Hao Wang on Gödel's philosophy  -- Eckehart Köhler; title: Hao Wang's contributions to mechanized deduction and to the Entscheidungsproblem  -- Martin Davis; title: Sets and concepts, on the basis of discussions with Gödels  -- Hao Wang; title: Hao Wang on the cultivation and methodology of philosphy  -- Abner Shimony; title: Wang and Wittgenstein  -- Juliet Floyd; title: Bibliography of Hao Wang -- Marie Grossi, Montgomery Link, Katalin Makkai, and Charles Parsons.