[FOM] impredicative definitions/paper announcement

[John Baldwin]

For a background on predicativity see

  Feferman's article in  The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of 
Mathematics and Logic

  http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/predicativity.pdf



John T. Baldwin
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computer Science M/C 249
jbaldwin at uic.edu
851 S. Morgan
Chicago IL
60607


On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Monroe Eskew wrote:

> Aside from being one possible response to Russell's paradox, what is
> the motivation for predicativism?
>
> Thanks,
> Monroe
>
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Nik Weaver <nweaver at math.wustl.edu> wrote:
>>

>>
>> Incidentally, I have a new survey paper on predicativism (and it does
>> discuss this point).  It's called "What is predicativism?" and can be
>> found at
>>
>> http://www.math.wustl.edu/~nweaver/what.pdf
>>
>> or among my other papers at
>>
>> http://www.math.wustl.edu/~nweaver/conceptualism.html
>>
>>
>> Nik Weaver
>> Math Dept.
>> Washington University
>> St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
>> nweaver at math.wustl.edu
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