Essays in the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics /
[Book]
Roman Murawski ; foreword [by] Jan Woleński
343 pages ;
24 cm
Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities,
v. 98
0303-8157 ;
A collection of previously published essays; those originally written in Polish have been translated into English for this publication
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-334) and index
Cantor's philosophy of set theory -- Leibniz's and Kant's philosophical ideas vs. Hilbert's program -- Truth vs. provability : philosophical and historical remarks -- Philosophy of mathematics in the 20th Century : main trends and doctrines -- On new trends in the philosophy of mathematics -- Remarks on the structuralistic epistemology of mathematics / (with Izabela Bondecka-Krzykowska) -- From the history of the concept of number / (with Thomas Bedürftig) -- Church's thesis and Its epistemological status -- Phenomenology and philosophy of mathematics -- Hoene-Wroński : genius or madman? -- Grassmann's contribution to mathematics -- Giuseppe Peano and symbolic logic -- E.L. Post and the development of logic -- John von Neumann and Hilbert's school -- Contribution of Polish logicians to decidability theory -- Contribution of Polish logicians to predicate calculus -- The English algebra of logic in the 19th century -- The development of symbolism in logic and its philosophical background / (with Thomas Bedürftig)