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Reflecting on Truth and Types

Research project
Active research
Project size
2,800,000
Project period
2017 - 2021
Project owner
Department of Philosohy, Linguistics and Theory of Science

Financier
Swedish Research Council (VR)

Short description

The goal of this research is to deepen our understanding of varying forms of reflection principle and their interrelation. We focus primarily on two distinct forms critical in characterising the concepts and understanding inherent in general mathematics: reflections of formal truth in logical languages and the universal reflection and induction principles at the cornerstone of type theory. The analysis will involve core methods from proof theory, model theory and constructive mathematics.

Contact person

Graham E. Leigh (graham.leigh@gu.se)