Iconoclastic Papers in Rigorous Philosophy

The present book is a "meta-selection" of papers written between 1980 and 2020, most of them already published elsewhere, whereas two of them are published in the book for the first time. The book is divided in three uneven parts. The first part consists of twelve papers concerned with fundamental issues in the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of logic and formal semantics. The second part consists of eleven papers in basically the same areas, though also concerned with the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science, and relating to one or more philosophers, e.g., Husserl, Frege, Kant, Kripke or Carnap. The third and by far much shorter part consists of two papers on a completely different area of philosophy, namely, political philosophy. The first one is concerned with the distortions of the words "democracy" and "socialism" at the hands of the U.S. governments, respectively, of Marxists; while the second tries to explain the correct sense precisely of the words "democracy" and "socialism".