From logic to art : themes from Nelson Goodman / Gerhard Ernst, Jakob Steinbrenner, Oliver R. Scholz (eds.)

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ernst, Gerhard, 1971- editor.

Steinbrenner, Jakob, editor.

Scholz, Oliver R., 1960- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Philosophische Forschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 7.

Philosophische Forschung ; Bd. 7 = Philosophical research ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goodman, Nelson.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

346 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos-Verlag ; Piscataway, NJ : Transaction Books [distributor], 2009.

Contents:

The life and opinions of Nelson Goodman : a very short introduction / Oliver R. Schultz

The unity of Goodman's thought / Daniel Cohnitz

Leonard, Goodman, and the development of the Calculus of individuals / Marcus Rossberg

Counterfactuals beyond paradox / Wolfgang Heydrich

`Contextualist references in Nelson Goodman's solution to the "New riddle of induction" / Ansgar Seide

On "about" : definitions and principles / Karl-Georg Niebergall

Goodman on truth / Richard Schantz

How much of a relativist is Goodman? / Thomas Splett

Exemplification and idealisation / Mark Textor

Five ways of (not) defining exemplification / Inga Vermeulen, Georg Brun, Christoph Baumberger

Art-samples : on the connection between art and science / Jakob Steinbrenner

Nelson Goodman's autographic-allographic distinction in architecture : the case of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion

Ambiguity in architecture / Christoph Baumberger

Language of architecture, some reflections on Nelson Goodman's theory of symbols / Sabine Ammon

Fiction, truth and knowledge / Axel Spree.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II period". Goodman has left his mark in many fields of philosophical investigation: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Metaphysics, the General Theory of Symbols, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Art, all have been challenged and enriched by the problems he has shown up, the projects he developed from them and the solutions he has suggested. In August 2006 a couple of Goodman aficionados met in Munich to celebrate the Centennial. The proceedings of the ensuing international conference are documented in this volume. The contributions attest the fact that Goodman's thinking still holds many treasures."--Description on Deutsche Nationale Bibliothek web site.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783868380194

3868380191

OCLC:

368239210

Publisher Number:

99937294679