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Central European University Press
The volume presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005. The problem addressed by the conference, famously formulated by Paul Benacerraf in a paper on Mathematical Truth, was how to understand truth in the semantics of discourses about abstract domains whose objects and properties cannot be observed by sense perception. The... Read more
Introduction András Simonyi and Zsolt Novák, The reality of mathematics and the case of set theory Daniel Isaacson, Conceptualism and knowledge of logic: A budget of problems Nenad Mišcevic, What is logic? Ian Rumfitt, Absolute identity and absolute generality Timothy Williamson, The refutation of expressivism Ralph Wedgwood, Benacerraf's problem, abstract objects and intellect Howard Robinson, About the Contributors,Index
Biography
András Simonyi is Research Fellow at the Applied Logic Laboratory, Budapest. His main areas of research interest are semantics, formal ontologies and philosophy of mathematics.
Zsolt Novák has obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leiden and from Central European University.
