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MATHEMATICS, MODELS, AND MODALITY
John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which
seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through counter-
criticism of their nominalist, intuitionist, relevantist, and other critics.
This selection of his essays, which spans twenty-five years, addresses
key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal
logic, analyticity, and translation. An introduction sets the essays in
context and offers a retrospective appraisal of their aims. The volume
will be of interest to a wide range of readers across philosophy of
mathematics, logic, and philosophy of language.
JOHN P. BURGESS is Professor in the Department of Philosophy,
Princeton University. He is co-author of A Subject With No Object
with Gideon Rosen (1997)putability and Logic, 5th edn with
e S. Boolos and Richard C. Jeffrey (2007), and author of Fixing
Frege (2005).
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MATHEMATICS, MODELS,
AND MODALITY
Selected Philosophical Essays
JOHN P. BURGESS
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK
Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
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© John P. Burgess 2008
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