Proof Theory History and Philosophical Significance
- List Price: $209.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
- Publish date: 10/01/2000
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1. Review of Proof Theory.- Highlights in Proof Theory.- 2. The Background of Hilbert's Proof Theory.- The Empiricist Roots of Hilbert's Axiomatic Approach.- The Calm Before the Storm: Hilbert's Early Views on Foundations.- Toward Finitist Proof Theory.- 3. Brouwer and Weyl on Proof Theory and Philosophy of Mathematics.- The Development of Brouwer's Intuitionism.- Did Brouwer's Intuitionistic Analysis Satisfy its own Epistemological Standards?.- The Significance of Weyl's Das Kontinuum.- Herman Weyl on the Concept of Continuum.- 4. Modern Views and Results from Proof Theory.- Relationships between Constructive, Predicative and Classical Systems of Analysis.
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