Against the Current: Selected Philosophical Papers

This collection deals with issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of language and epistemology. The first part contains critical assessments and somewhat deviant renderings of the work of two seminal philosophers, Frege and Husserl, as well as of the young Carnap and Kripke. The second part contains analyses of central issues in the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of mathematics and semantics, including arguments on behalf of Platonism in the philosophy of mathematics, a defense of second-order logic, a new definition of analyticity, a sketch of a semantics for mathematical statements, and a critique of Kripke’s possible world semantics for modal logic.