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Reduction - Abstraction - Analysis
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Introduction v
  3. Table of Contents vii
  4. I. Reduction
  5. A PROOF OF NOMINALISM: AN EXERCISE IN SUCCESSFUL REDUCTION IN LOGIC 1
  6. PRESERVATION OF EMPIRICAL SUCCESS AND INTERTHEORETICAL CORRESPONDENCE: JUSTIFYING REALISM WITHOUT THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT 15
  7. EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY AND RAMSIFICATION, II 29
  8. ELIMINATING MODALITY FROM THE DETERMINISM DEBATE? MODELS VS. EQUATIONS OF PHYSICAL THEORIES 47
  9. DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS: NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL? 63
  10. THE “MULTIREALIZATION” OF MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY 79
  11. PESSIMISTIC META-INDUCTION AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF SCIENCE 95
  12. WEAK PHYSICALISM AND SPECIAL SCIENCE ONTOLOGY 113
  13. ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE? 127
  14. ONTIC GENERATION: GETTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BASICS 137
  15. WHAT REDUCTIONISTS BELIEVE IN 153
  16. SUPERVENIENCE AND MORAL REALISM 163
  17. ALTERNATIVE REDUCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC DEONTIC LOGICS 179
  18. II. Abstraction
  19. THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ABSTRACTION 195
  20. HOW ABSTRACTION WORKS 217
  21. THIN OBJECTS 227
  22. RUSSELL’S MANY POINTS 239
  23. FROM DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS TO SETS OF ORDERED PAIRS 259
  24. DIAGONALIZATION, THE LIAR PARADOX, AND THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE FORMAL SYSTEM PRESENTED IN THE APPENDIX TO FREGE’S GRUNDGESETZE: VOLUME II 273
  25. A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION FOR NEO-FREGEANISM 289
  26. ED ZALTA’S VERSION OF NEO-LOGICISM – A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT 305
  27. REPLY TO P. EBERT AND M. ROSSBERG’S FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT 311
  28. III. Analysis
  29. ON THE BENEFITS OF A REDUCTION OF MODAL PREDICATES TO MODAL OPERATORS 323
  30. CALCULI OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOME EXTENSIONS: AN OVERVIEW 335
  31. DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND ELIMINATION 355
  32. FROM LANGUAGE GAMES TO SOCIAL SOFTWARE 365
  33. ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GAMES IN EXTENSIVE FORM AND GAMES IN STRATEGIC FORM 377
  34. TWO ACCOUNTS OF SIMILARITY COMPARED 389
  35. CONTEXTUALISM, RELATIVISM, AND FACTIVITY. ANALYZING ‘KNOWLEDGE’ AFTER THE NEW LINGUISTIC TURN IN EPISTEMOLOGY 403
  36. Backmatter 417
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328875.137

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Introduction v
  3. Table of Contents vii
  4. I. Reduction
  5. A PROOF OF NOMINALISM: AN EXERCISE IN SUCCESSFUL REDUCTION IN LOGIC 1
  6. PRESERVATION OF EMPIRICAL SUCCESS AND INTERTHEORETICAL CORRESPONDENCE: JUSTIFYING REALISM WITHOUT THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT 15
  7. EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY AND RAMSIFICATION, II 29
  8. ELIMINATING MODALITY FROM THE DETERMINISM DEBATE? MODELS VS. EQUATIONS OF PHYSICAL THEORIES 47
  9. DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS: NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL? 63
  10. THE “MULTIREALIZATION” OF MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY 79
  11. PESSIMISTIC META-INDUCTION AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF SCIENCE 95
  12. WEAK PHYSICALISM AND SPECIAL SCIENCE ONTOLOGY 113
  13. ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE? 127
  14. ONTIC GENERATION: GETTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BASICS 137
  15. WHAT REDUCTIONISTS BELIEVE IN 153
  16. SUPERVENIENCE AND MORAL REALISM 163
  17. ALTERNATIVE REDUCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC DEONTIC LOGICS 179
  18. II. Abstraction
  19. THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ABSTRACTION 195
  20. HOW ABSTRACTION WORKS 217
  21. THIN OBJECTS 227
  22. RUSSELL’S MANY POINTS 239
  23. FROM DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS TO SETS OF ORDERED PAIRS 259
  24. DIAGONALIZATION, THE LIAR PARADOX, AND THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE FORMAL SYSTEM PRESENTED IN THE APPENDIX TO FREGE’S GRUNDGESETZE: VOLUME II 273
  25. A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION FOR NEO-FREGEANISM 289
  26. ED ZALTA’S VERSION OF NEO-LOGICISM – A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT 305
  27. REPLY TO P. EBERT AND M. ROSSBERG’S FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT 311
  28. III. Analysis
  29. ON THE BENEFITS OF A REDUCTION OF MODAL PREDICATES TO MODAL OPERATORS 323
  30. CALCULI OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOME EXTENSIONS: AN OVERVIEW 335
  31. DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND ELIMINATION 355
  32. FROM LANGUAGE GAMES TO SOCIAL SOFTWARE 365
  33. ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GAMES IN EXTENSIVE FORM AND GAMES IN STRATEGIC FORM 377
  34. TWO ACCOUNTS OF SIMILARITY COMPARED 389
  35. CONTEXTUALISM, RELATIVISM, AND FACTIVITY. ANALYZING ‘KNOWLEDGE’ AFTER THE NEW LINGUISTIC TURN IN EPISTEMOLOGY 403
  36. Backmatter 417
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