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1 de jun. de 2011 · Truth through Proof: A Formalist Foundation for Mathematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-954149-2. Pp. xiv+281. Philosophia Mathematica, Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 213–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkr009. Alan Weir’s new book is, like Darwin’s Origin of Species, ‘one long argument’.
Jun 2024. Latest edition. Overview. Editors: Adam Rieger, Stephan Leuenberger. Celebrates the contributions of Alan Weir, a significant figure in contemporary Scottish philosophy. Includes work across a wide variety of topics in analytic philosophy, reflecting Alan Weir’s research interests.
Realism and Behaviourism. by Alan Weir *. Summary. Many contemporary philosophers of language believe that realist metaphysics and a beha-. viouristic approach to language are incompatible, debate centring on which is to be given up. In this paper I argue that no incompatibility has been shown to exist.
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow. This site was originally created in 2014. I've updated the photograph to a more recent one (and not a close up!) than the 2014 one (which I think was actually taken around when I first came back to Glasgow in 2006!). The site was primarily
Alan J. Weir. Published 1973. Description. Lebesgue integration is a technique of great power and elegance which can be applied in situations where other methods of integration fail. It is now one of the standard tools of modern mathematics, and forms part of many undergraduate courses in pure mathematics.
Alan Weir Truth Through Proof: A Formalist Foundation for Mathematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press 2010. xiv + 281 pages $65.00 (cloth ISBN 978–0–19–954149–2) In this fascinating book, Weir defends a new account of what makes mathematical assertions objectively true or false.
