The Unprovability of Consistency by George Boolos

The Unprovability of Consistency by George Boolos

The Unprovability of Consistency is concerned with connections between two branches of logic: proof theory and modal logic. Modal logic is the study of the principles that govern the concepts of necessity and possibility; proof theory is, in part, the study of those that govern provability and consistency. In this book, George Boolos looks at the principles of provability from the standpoint of modal logic. In doing so, he provides two perspectives on a debate in modal logic that has persisted for at least thirty years between the followers of C. I. Lewis and W. V. O. Quine. The author employs semantic methods developed by Saul Kripke in his analysis of modal logical systems. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in logic, mathematics and philosophy, as well as to specialists in those fields.

Boolos, George: - George Boolos was Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ISBN 13	9780521092975
ISBN 10	0521092973
Titre	The Unprovability of Consistency
Auteur	George Boolos
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	2009-01-08
Nombre de pages	196
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