Logic, Meaning, and Computation: Essays in Memory of Alonzo Church

C. Anthony Anderson, Michael Zelëny · 2001

Preface C.A. Anderson, M. Zeleny. Remembering Alonzo Church D. Kaplan, T. Burge. Part I: Logic. Logic, truth and number: The elementary genesis of arithmetic P. Apostoli. Second-order logic J. Corcoran. A representation of relation algebras using Routley-Meyer frames J.M. Dunn. Church's set theory with a universal set Th. Forster. Axioms of infinity in Church's type theory R.O. Gandy. Logical objects E.L. Keenan. The lambda calculus and adjoint functors S.M. Lane. Atomic Boolean algebras and classical propositional logic G.J. Massey. Improved decision procedures for pure relevant logic R.K. Meyer. The 'triumph' of first-order languages S. Shapiro. Equivalence relations and groups R. Smullyan. Part II: Computation. Discriminating coded lambda terms H. Barendregt. lambda-calculus as a foundation for mathematics K. Grue. Peano's lambda calculus: The functional abstraction implicit in arithmetic D. Leivant. The undecidability of lambda-definability R. Loader. A construction of the provable wellorderings of the theory of species P. Martin-Lof. Semantics for first and higher order realizability C. Mclarty. Language and equality theory in logic programming J.C. Shepherdson. Part III: Philosophy, Meaning, and Intensional Logic. Alternative (1*): A criterion of identity for intensional entities C.A. Anderson. Nominalist paraphrase and ontological commitment J.P. Burgess. Peace, justice and computation: Leibniz' program and the moral and political significance of Church's theorem M. Detlefsen. Tarski's theorem and NFU M.R. Holmes. Church's theorem and randomness G. Mar. Russellian type theory andsemantical paradoxes E. Martino. The logic of sense and denotation: Extensions and applications T. Parsons. Analysis, synonymy and sense M. Richard. The very possibility of language N. Salmon. Index.

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