>>Angela:
>>does anyone know: when did mathematics and philosophy split, btw?
>
>My guess would be that this was "very, very recently, if at all", in that
>Bertrand Russell certainly thought that Wittgenstein was doing the same
>sort of thing in /Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus/ and subsequent writings
>that he and Whitehead were doing in /Principia Mathematica/
In the US, logicians most often set up shop in philosophy depts. A chief concern of logicians is model theory, developed by Alfred Tarski, a mathematician. When I was doing the philosophy thing (before failing miserably because of laziness and career anxiety), I had an advisor who put "mathematical logic" on his CV. All this leads me to the belief that the purportedly split would be "very, very, very recent, if at all".
One of the best technical books I've ever encountered is Chang and Keisler's "Model Theory". This from a man who breaks out in hives at the thought of Calculus.
non sequitarally, david
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