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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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73Discussion—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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11Review: Nicholas Rescher, A Probabilistic Approach to Modal Logic (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (4): 583-583. 1970.
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