DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS: NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL?

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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