Reduction, abstraction, analysis / Alexander Hieke, Hannes Leitgeb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hieke, Alexander.

Contributor:

Leitgeb, Hannes.

Series:

Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society -- New Series (N.S.)

Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society ; n.s., v. 11

Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic--Congresses.

Logic.

Reductionism--Congresses.

Reductionism.

Abstraction--Congresses.

Abstraction.

Analysis (Philosophy)--Congresses.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophers often have tried to either reduce ""disagreeable"" objects or concepts to (more) acceptable objects or concepts. Reduction is regarded attractive by those who subscribe to an ideal of ontological parsimony. But the topic is not just restricted to traditional metaphysics or ontology. In the philosophy of mathematics, abstraction principles, such as Hume''s principle, have been suggested to support a reconstruction of mathematics by logical means only. In the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, the logical analysis of language has long been regarded to be the domin

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction

Table of Contents

I. Reduction

A PROOF OF NOMINALISM: AN EXERCISE IN SUCCESSFUL REDUCTION IN LOGIC / Hintikka, Jaakko

PRESERVATION OF EMPIRICAL SUCCESS AND INTERTHEORETICAL CORRESPONDENCE: JUSTIFYING REALISM WITHOUT THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT / Schurz, Gerhard

EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY AND RAMSIFICATION, II / Ketland, Jeffrey

ELIMINATING MODALITY FROM THE DETERMINISM DEBATE? MODELS VS. EQUATIONS OF PHYSICAL THEORIES / Müller, Thomas

DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS: NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL? / Werndl, Charlotte

THE "MULTIREALIZATION" OF MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY / Lyre, Holger

PESSIMISTIC META-INDUCTION AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF SCIENCE / Fahrbach, Ludwig

WEAK PHYSICALISM AND SPECIAL SCIENCE ONTOLOGY / Ladyman, James

ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE? / Bird, Alexander

ONTIC GENERATION: GETTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BASICS / Simons, Peter

WHAT REDUCTIONISTS BELIEVE IN / Kanzian, Christian

SUPERVENIENCE AND MORAL REALISM / Hills, Alison

ALTERNATIVE REDUCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC DEONTIC LOGICS / ANGLBERGER, ALBERT J.J.

II. Abstraction

THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ABSTRACTION / Wright, Crispin

HOW ABSTRACTION WORKS / Horsten, Leon / Leitgeb, Hannes

THIN OBJECTS / Linnebo, Øystein

RUSSELL'S MANY POINTS / Mormann, Thomas

FROM DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS TO SETS OF ORDERED PAIRS / Linsky, Bernard

DIAGONALIZATION, THE LIAR PARADOX, AND THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE FORMAL SYSTEM PRESENTED IN THE APPENDIX TO FREGE'S GRUNDGESETZE: VOLUME II / Cook, Roy T

A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION FOR NEO-FREGEANISM / Gabbay, Michael

ED ZALTA'S VERSION OF NEO-LOGICISM - A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT / Ebert, Philip A. / Rossberg, Marcus

REPLY TO P. EBERT AND M. ROSSBERG'S FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT / Zalta, Edward N.

III. Analysis

ON THE BENEFITS OF A REDUCTION OF MODAL PREDICATES TO MODAL OPERATORS / Halbach, Volker

CALCULI OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOME EXTENSIONS: AN OVERVIEW / Niebergall, Karl-Georg

DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND ELIMINATION / Gratzl, Norbert

FROM LANGUAGE GAMES TO SOCIAL SOFTWARE / Parikh, Rohit

ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GAMES IN EXTENSIVE FORM AND GAMES IN STRATEGIC FORM / Huttegger, Simon M.

TWO ACCOUNTS OF SIMILARITY COMPARED / Decock, Lieven / Douven, Igor

CONTEXTUALISM, RELATIVISM, AND FACTIVITY. ANALYZING 'KNOWLEDGE' AFTER THE NEW LINGUISTIC TURN IN EPISTEMOLOGY / Brendel, Elke

Backmatter

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ISBN:

9783110328875

3110328879

OCLC:

851972162

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