Feferman on Foundations (eBook)

Gerhard Jäger is a Professor of Logic and Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Bern. He received his PhD from the University of Munich in 1980. From 1979 to 1986, he was engaged in postdoctoral work at the Universities of Oxford, Munich and Stanford, as well as the ETH Zurich. From 1986 to 1988, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich. In 1988, he joined the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Bern, first as an Associate Professor of Computer Science, and since 1992, as a Full Professor of Logic and Theoretical Computer Science. He served as the Dean of this faculty from 2002 to 2004 and as member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2004 to 2012. His internationally well established research focuses on mathematical logic, in particular proof theory, and the logical aspects of computer science.Wilfried Sieg is Patrick Suppes Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1977. From 1966 to 1985, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Columbia University, USA. In 1985, he joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty as a founding member of the University’s Philosophy Department and served as its Head from 1994 to 2005. He is internationally known for his mathematical work in proof theory, historical work on modern logic and mathematics, and philosophical essays on the nature of mathematics. Sieg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Tentative TOC  Table of contents   Introduction: Perspective   Feferman: Autobiography I. Mathematical Logic.- Model Theory .- Set Theory .- Proof Theory. -  Computability Theory II. Conceptual Expansions . Predicativity .- Unfolding 2 .-  Semi-constructive systems     III. Axiomatic Foundations .- Explicit Mathematics and Operational Set Theory .- Theories of Truth .- Foundations of Category Theory IV. From Logic to Philosophy .-  What is Logic? .- Foundational Ways .- Gödel, Minds and Machines .-  New Axioms and the Continuum Problem .- Conceptual Structuralism   V. Responses   Feferman: Bibliography   Contributors: Short biographies.- Index.