Burgess J.P. Mathematics, Models and Modality: Selected Philosophical Essays

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 317 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88034-3, 978-0-511-38820-0.John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through countercriticism 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 of interest to a wide range of readers across philosophy of mathematics, logic, and philosophy of language.John P. Burgess is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University. He is co-author of A Subject With No Object with Gideon Rosen (1997) and Computability and Logic, 5th edn with George S. Boolos and Richard C. Jeffrey (2007), and author of Fixing Frege (2005).