Paradox and Paraconsistency
Subtitle: Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780511072819; 9781280418495
Subjects: Symbolic and mathematical Logic
Description: One might expect the exact sciences of logic and mathematics to be without conflict. In fact these disciplines are rife with internal divisions between often incompatible systems. This book explores apparently intractable disagreements in logic and the foundations of mathematics and sets out conflict resolution strategies that evade these stalemates.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1 Conflict in the Abstract Sciences; 2 Modalities; 3 Managing Inconsistency; 4 Semantic Intuitions; 5 Sets and Truth; 6 Fiction; 7 Currying Liars; 8 Normativity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.