Harvard 1940–1941: Tarski, Carnap and Quine on a finitistic language of mathematics for science

DOI10.1080/01445340500141586MaRDI QIDQ5717551zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paolo Mancosu

Publication date 10 January 2006

Published in History and Philosophy of Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340500141586

zbMATH Keywords

finitismnominalismsemantics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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Cites work

• Mathematical explanation: problems and prospects.
• Steps toward a constructive nominalism
• The Road to Modern Logic—An Interpretation
• What are logical notions?

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• Carnapian and Tarskian semantics
• \textit{Sign and object}: Quine's forgotten book project
• The 2007 Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Logic
• Ontology of logic and mathematics in Lvov-Warsaw school
• Numbers and propositions versus nominalists: yellow cards for Salmon \& Soames
• The early formation of modal logic and its significance: a historical note on Quine, Carnap, and a bit of Church
• Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at Harvard. Conversations on logic, mathematics, and science
• Two Unpublished Contributions by Alfred Tarski
• Logic and biology: the correspondence between Alfred Tarski and Joseph H. Woodger

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