Haim Gaifman


 

Professor Haim Gaifman

Philosophy Department

715 Philosophy Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Office Phone: 212 854 3284
EMAIL: hg17 AT:  columbia.edu

 SOME WORKS

All papers are in .pdf format. To download click on the link.

Pointers to Truth

(pdf file)  33 pages. The Journal of Philosophy May 1992 (vol. LXXXIX, number 5). Some diagrams
contained in the Journal article have not been reproduced here.

 

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  Pointers to Propositions
Self contained sequel to "Pointers to Truth". In Circularity, Definition, and Truth (editors: Andre Chapuis and Anil Gupta, Indian Council of Philosophical Research (2000) pp. 79 – 121.)

Is the "Bottom-Up" Approach from the Theory of Meaning to Metaphysics possible?
Journal of Philosophy, August 1996 pp. 373 - 407

 

Self-Reference and the Acyclity of Rational Choice
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 96 (1999) pp. 117-140

 

What Gödel’s Incompleteness Result Does and Does Not Show
The Journal of Philosophy August 2000 pp. 462-470

   

 Vagueness, Tolerance and Contextual Logic   
41 pages. January  2002.
Sums Works presented in several conferences during 1997--2001.  
  Comments are welcome:   hg17@columbia.edu   
 (A notational typo in section 3 pp. 7- 16, caused by use of obsolete font,
was corrected in April 2007; a refernece was added in the footnote of page 1.)   

 

Non-Standard Models in a Broader Perspective
In: Nonstandard Models of Arithmetic and Set Theory, ed. A. Enayat and R. Kossak,
The Contemporary Mathematics Series, Am. Math. Soc. publications, 2003, pp. 1-22

Reasoning with Bounded Resources and Assigning Probabilities to Arithmetical Statements
Synthese May 2004, vol.140, 1-2 pp. 97-119
(Uploaded February 17 2008, previous version had typos).

The Easy Way to Gödel’s Proof and Related Matters
Expositlory lecture on the incompleteness results.
10 pages.

Some Thoughts and a Proposal in the Philosophy of Mathematics
in: Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science
     Proceedings of the Twelvth International Congress,
2005
      ed. P.H. Hajek, L.V., VIllanueva and D. Westerstahl.
     pages 351 - 372


Naming and Diagonalization, From Cantor to Gödel to Kleene
Logic Journal of the IGPL, October 2006 pp. 709 - 728

Questions and Answers on Philosophy and Personal
In: Formal Philosophy, edited by V. Hendricks and J. Symons,
2005, Automatic Press, pp. 53-64

 

Contextual Logic with Modalities for Time and Space

To appear in Review of Symbolic Logic 31 pages
(final version, including many corrections)