Reduction – Abstraction

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Alexander Hieke, Hannes Leitgeb (Eds.)
Reduction – Abstraction – Analysis
Proceedings of the 31th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2008

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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.

About the Editors

Alexander Hieke is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg. He has edited, amongst others, volumes on Free Logic and Ernst Mally. He is the author of various articles and books on metaphysics and ontology, logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology.

Hannes Leitgeb is Professor at the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He is a Managing Editor of Studia Logica, an Associate Editor of Erkenntnis, a Subject Editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and an Editor of the Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap. He is the author of numerous papers and books on logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

ISBN: 978-3-86838-047-7
414 pp
Hardcover
€79.00