Foundations Logic Language And Mathematics

This Festschrift is in honor of Prof. Andre Scedrov at the University of Pennsylvania. Scedrov has laid the foundations for a number of now well-established domains in mathematics and computer science including Proof Theory, Logic in Computer Science, Foundations in Computer Security, and Linguistics.

Flawed, misleading, and false arguments are everywhere. From advertisers trying to separate you from your money, to politicians trying to sway your vote, to friends who want you to agree with them, your belief structure is constantly under attack.

This collection covers all fields of mathematics, a must-have for the aspiring maths students and scholars alike.

One can distinguish, roughly speaking, two different approaches to the philosophy of mathematics. On the one hand, some philosophers (and some mathematicians) take the nature and the results of mathematicians' activities as given, and go on to ask what philosophical morals one might perhaps find in their story. On the other hand, some philosophers, logicians and mathematicians have tried or are trying to subject the very concepts which mathematicians are using in their work to critical scrutiny. In practice this usually means scrutinizing the logical and linguistic tools mathematicians wield. Such scrutiny can scarcely help relying on philosophical ideas and principles. In other words it can scarcely help being literally a study of language, truth and logic in mathematics, albeit not necessarily in the spirit of AJ. Ayer.