Reduction - Abstraction - Analysis: Proceedings of the 31th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2008

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Reduction - Abstraction - Analysis

Proceedings of the 31th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2008

Edited by: Alexander Hieke and Hannes Leitgeb

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2009

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Volume 11 | Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society – New Series

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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 dominating paradigm, and liberalized projects of logical reconstruction remain to be driving forces of modern philosophy.

This volume collects contributions comprising all those topics, including articles by Alexander Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, James Ladyman, Rohit Parikh, Gerhard Schurz, Peter Simons, Crispin Wright and Edward N. Zalta.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
I. Reduction
A PROOF OF NOMINALISM: AN EXERCISE IN SUCCESSFUL REDUCTION IN LOGIC Jaakko Hintikka Publicly Available Download PDF	1
PRESERVATION OF EMPIRICAL SUCCESS AND INTERTHEORETICAL CORRESPONDENCE: JUSTIFYING REALISM WITHOUT THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT Gerhard Schurz Publicly Available Download PDF	15
EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY AND RAMSIFICATION, II Jeffrey Ketland Publicly Available Download PDF	29
ELIMINATING MODALITY FROM THE DETERMINISM DEBATE? MODELS VS. EQUATIONS OF PHYSICAL THEORIES Thomas Müller Publicly Available Download PDF	47
DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS: NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL? Charlotte Werndl Publicly Available Download PDF	63
THE “MULTIREALIZATION” OF MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY Holger Lyre Publicly Available Download PDF	79
PESSIMISTIC META-INDUCTION AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF SCIENCE Ludwig Fahrbach Publicly Available Download PDF	95
WEAK PHYSICALISM AND SPECIAL SCIENCE ONTOLOGY James Ladyman Publicly Available Download PDF	113
ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE? Alexander Bird Publicly Available Download PDF	127
ONTIC GENERATION: GETTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BASICS Peter Simons Publicly Available Download PDF	137
WHAT REDUCTIONISTS BELIEVE IN Christian Kanzian Publicly Available Download PDF	153
SUPERVENIENCE AND MORAL REALISM Alison Hills Publicly Available Download PDF	163
ALTERNATIVE REDUCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC DEONTIC LOGICS ALBERT J.J. ANGLBERGER Publicly Available Download PDF	179
II. Abstraction
THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ABSTRACTION Crispin Wright Publicly Available Download PDF	195
HOW ABSTRACTION WORKS Leon Horsten and Hannes Leitgeb Publicly Available Download PDF	217
THIN OBJECTS Øystein Linnebo Publicly Available Download PDF	227
RUSSELL’S MANY POINTS Thomas Mormann Publicly Available Download PDF	239
FROM DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS TO SETS OF ORDERED PAIRS Bernard Linsky Publicly Available Download PDF	259
DIAGONALIZATION, THE LIAR PARADOX, AND THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE FORMAL SYSTEM PRESENTED IN THE APPENDIX TO FREGE’S GRUNDGESETZE: VOLUME II Roy T Cook Publicly Available Download PDF	273
A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION FOR NEO-FREGEANISM Michael Gabbay Publicly Available Download PDF	289
ED ZALTA’S VERSION OF NEO-LOGICISM – A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT Philip A. Ebert and Marcus Rossberg Publicly Available Download PDF	305
REPLY TO P. EBERT AND M. ROSSBERG’S FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT Edward N. Zalta Publicly Available Download PDF	311
III. Analysis
ON THE BENEFITS OF A REDUCTION OF MODAL PREDICATES TO MODAL OPERATORS Volker Halbach Publicly Available Download PDF	323
CALCULI OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOME EXTENSIONS: AN OVERVIEW Karl-Georg Niebergall Publicly Available Download PDF	335
DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND ELIMINATION Norbert Gratzl Publicly Available Download PDF	355
FROM LANGUAGE GAMES TO SOCIAL SOFTWARE Rohit Parikh Publicly Available Download PDF	365
ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GAMES IN EXTENSIVE FORM AND GAMES IN STRATEGIC FORM Simon M. Huttegger Publicly Available Download PDF	377
TWO ACCOUNTS OF SIMILARITY COMPARED Lieven Decock and Igor Douven Publicly Available Download PDF	389
CONTEXTUALISM, RELATIVISM, AND FACTIVITY. ANALYZING ‘KNOWLEDGE’ AFTER THE NEW LINGUISTIC TURN IN EPISTEMOLOGY Elke Brendel Publicly Available Download PDF	403
Backmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	417

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