Bell, John L.
, Professor of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario
Third Edition
Print publication date: 2005
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856852-0
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568520.001.0001
Abstract:
This is the third edition of a well-known graduate textbook on Boolean-valued models of set theory. The aim of the first and second editions was to provide a systematic and adequately motivated exposition of the theory of Boolean-valued models as developed by Scott and Solovay in the 1960s, deriving along the way the central set theoretic independence proofs of Cohen and others in the particularly elegant form that the Boolean-valued approach enables them to assume. In this edition, the background material has been augmented to include an introduction to Heyting algebras. It includes chapters on Boolean-valued analysis and Heyting-algebra-valued models of intuitionistic set theory.