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Charles Chihara

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#8899

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Logic

#8785

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#11039

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PhD Philosophy University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Seiyo Chihara was an American philosopher specializing in the philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics. Early life and education Born to Japanese-American parents in Seattle, Chihara spent part of his youth in an internment camp during World War II. After graduating from O'Dea High School, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Seattle, a Master of Science in mathematics from Purdue University, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Washington.

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Charles Chihara's Published Works

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Constructibility and mathematical existence (1991) (142)
The Semantic Paradoxes: A Diagnostic Investigation (1979) (108)
Ontology and the vicious-circle principle (1973) (72)
A Structural Account of Mathematics (2004) (56)
The Dutch book argument: Its logical flaws, its subjective sources (1979) (52)
The worlds of possibility (1998) (52)
III. OPERATIONALISM AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE A CRITIQUE OF WITTGENSTEIN (1965) (46)
Some Problems for Bayesian Confirmation Theory (1987) (42)
Nominalism (2019) (31)
The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic (2001) (29)
On Alleged Refutations of Mechanism Using Godel's Incompleteness Results (1972) (26)
A Godelian Thesis Regarding Mathematical Objects: Do They Exist? and Can We Perceive Them? (1982) (25)
The surprise examination paradox (1975) (20)
Operationalism and ordinary language (1967) (20)
On the Possibility of Completing an Infinite Process (1965) (18)
Wittgenstein's Analysis of the Paradoxes in His Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics (1977) (17)
Quine and the Confirmational Paradoxes (1981) (17)
The semantic paradoxes: Some second thoughts (1984) (14)
Truth, Meaning, and Paradox (1976) (14)
The Howson-Urbach proofs of Bayesian principles (1994) (10)
Priest, the Liar, and Gödel (1984) (10)
Our Ontological Commitment to Universals (1968) (9)
The mystery of Julius: A paradox in decision theory (1995) (9)
The Burgess-Rosen critique of nominalistic reconstructions† (2006) (8)
A simple type theory without platonic domains (1984) (8)
Olin, quine, and the surprise examination (1985) (8)
Davidson's extensional theory of meaning (1975) (7)
Mathematical Discovery and Concept Formation (1963) (6)
Wittgenstein and Logical Compulsion (1961) (5)
The many persons problem (1994) (5)
A formalization of a nominalistic set theory (1975) (4)
The Wright-Wing Defense of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Logic (1982) (4)
Church's thesis misconstrued (1975) (4)
A Biological Objection to Constructive Empiricism (1993) (3)
New directions for nominalist philosophers of mathematics (2010) (3)
An interchange on the Popper-Miller argument (1988) (2)
Proof and other Dilemmas: The Existence of Mathematical Objects (2008) (2)
Beyond Zabludowskian competitors: A new theory of projectibility (1978) (1)
Review of Charles Chihara , The Worlds of Possibility (2008) (1)
Tharp's ‘Myth and Mathematics’ (1989) (1)
Frege's and Bolzano's rationalist conceptions of arithmetic / Les conceptions rationalistes en arithmétique de Frege et Bolzano (1999) (1)
Measurable Quantities and Analysis (1991) (0)
Cohen's defense of Cook (1976) (0)
Anti-Modal Realism (2001) (0)
Anti-Realism in Mathematics (2001) (0)
The Deductive System (1991) (0)
Kitcher's Ideal Agents (1991) (0)
Ontology and the Vicious Circle Principle@@@Ontology and the Vicious Circle Principle. (1975) (0)
GREG RAY LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE: A DEFENSE OF TARSKI* (2013) (0)
What dreams are made on (2008) (0)
Why Burgess Is a Moderate Realist (1991) (0)
REVIEWS-A structural account of mathematics (2005) (0)
C. The Theory Approach (1991) (0)
Modality without Worlds III (2001) (0)
The Problem of Existence in Mathematics (1991) (0)
Science Without Numbers (1991) (0)
The Principle of Wanton Embedding (1977) (0)
The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic (2001) (0)
FIVE PUZZLES ABOUT MATHEMATICS IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS (2003) (0)
Operationalism and ordinary language revisited (1973) (0)
CHARLES S. CHIHARA AND DONALD A. GILLIES AN INTERCHANGE ON THE POPPER-MILLER ARGUMENT (1986) (0)
AN INTERCHANGE ON THE POPPER-MILLER (1988) (0)
Possible Worlds Semantics (2001) (0)
Dilemmas and Models A Nominalist’s Response to Burgess’s Arguments for Realism (2010) (0)
Maddy's Solution to the Problem of Reference (1991) (0)
An Improvement on Zabludowski's Critique of Goodman's Theory of Projection (1975) (0)
A DIAGNOSIS OF THE LIAR AND OTHER SEMANTICAL VICIOUS-CIRCLE PARADO,XES (2013) (0)
Deflationism and Mathematical Truth (1991) (0)
Modal Realism and its Roots in Mathematical Realism (2007) (0)
Horwich's justification of induction (1985) (0)
Cardinality and Number Theory (1991) (0)
The Constructibility Quantifiers (1991) (0)
Constructibility and Open‐Sentences (1991) (0)

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