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39Rigor and StructureOxford University Press UK. 2015.While we are commonly told that the distinctive method of mathematics is rigorous proof, and that the special topic of mathematics is abstract structure, there has been no agreement among mathematicians, logicians, or philosophers as to just what either of these assertions means. John P. Burgess clarifies the nature of mathematical rigor and of mathematical structure, and above all of the relation between the two, taking into account some of the latest developments in mathematics, including the …Read more
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74Fixing FregePrinceton University Press. 2005.This book surveys the assortment of methods put forth for fixing Frege's system, in an attempt to determine just how much of mathematics can be reconstructed in ...
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9Chapter Six. Intuitionistic LogicIn J. W. Davis (ed.), Philosophical logic, D. Reidel. pp. 121-142. 1969.
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371A subject with no object: strategies for nominalistic interpretation of mathematicsOxford University Press. 1997.Numbers and other mathematical objects are exceptional in having no locations in space or time or relations of cause and effect. This makes it difficult to account for the possibility of the knowledge of such objects, leading many philosophers to embrace nominalism, the doctrine that there are no such objects, and to embark on ambitious projects for interpreting mathematics so as to preserve the subject while eliminating its objects. This book cuts through a host of technicalities that have obsc…Read more
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44Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected EssaysHistory and Philosophy of Logic 36 (1): 93-95. 2015.The second volume of Charles Parsons’ selected papers, dedicated to Solomon Feferman, Wilfred Sieg, and William Tait, collects eleven mainly historical essays and reviews on philosophy and philosop...
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32Axioms for tense logic. II. Time periodsNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23 (4): 375-383. 1982.
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Mathematics, Models, and Modality: Selected Philosophical EssaysCambridge University Press. 2008.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 o…Read more
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11Review: Nicholas Rescher, A Probabilistic Approach to Modal Logic (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (4): 583-583. 1970.
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37Discussion—Soames on EmpiricismPhilosophical Studies 129 (3): 619-626. 2006.Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century by Scott Soames reminds me of nothing so much as Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov. Both are works that arose immediately out of the needs of undergraduate teaching, yet each manages to say much of significance to knowledgeable professionals. Each indirectly provides an outline of the history of its field, through a presentation of selected major works, taken in chronological order and including items that are generally recognized as marki…Read more
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