Crispin Wright

Crispin Wright ( born December 21, 1942 in Surrey ) is a British philosopher and co-founder of neo- logicism.

In 1968 he made ​​the Ph.D. at Trinity College and worked at All Souls College ( 1969-1978 ). He then became professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews. In 2008, he was also a professor at New York University.

In 1983 he wrote Frege 's Conception of Numbers as Objects. In it he described Frege's theorem that Peano axioms of arithmetic from Hume's principle can be derived by means of a second-order logic, by the fundamental law of value gradients (V ), leading to Russell's antinomy omitted. Formal proofs of the theorem followed by George Boolos and Richard Heck. An influential work for Objektivismusdebatte, Truth and Objectivity, followed in 1992. Wright was with Bob Hale became the founder of neo- logicism.

Works (selection)

  • Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics, Harvard University Press April 1980.
  • Frege 's Conception of Numbers as Objects, Humanities Press 1983.
  • Truth and Objectivity, Harvard University Press 1992.
  • Realism Meaning and Truth, 2nd edition, Wiley -Blackwell 1993.
  • With Bob Hale: The Reason 's Proper Study, Oxford, 2001.
  • Rails to Infinity, Harvard University Press, 2001.
  • Saving the Differences, Harvard University Press, 2003.
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