From Logic to Art: Themes from Nelson Goodman

✍ Scribed by Gerhard Ernst (editor); Jakob Steinbrenner (editor); Oliver R. Scholz (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Series: Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical Research; 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II period". Goodman has left his mark in many fields of philosophical investigation: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Metaphysics, the General Theory of Symbols, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Art, all have been challenged and enriched by the problems he has shown up, the projects he developed from them and the solutions he has suggested. In August 2006 a couple of Goodman aficionados met in Munich to celebrate the Centennial. The proceedings of the ensuing international conference are documented in this volume. The contributions attest the fact that Goodman's thinking still holds many treasures.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Oliver R. Scholz - The Life and Opinions of Nelson Goodman – A Very Short Introduction
Daniel Cohnitz - The Unity of Goodman’s Thought
Marcus Rossberg - Leonard, Goodman, and the Development of
the Calculus of Individuals
Wolfgang Heydrich - Counterfactuals beyond Paradox
Ansgar Seide - Contextualist References in NelsonGoodman’s Solution to the “New Riddle of
Induction”
Karl-Georg Niebergall -
On “About”: Definitions and Principles
Richard Schantz -
Goodman on Truth
Thomas Splett - How Much of a Relativist Is Goo
dman?
Mark Textor -
Exemplification and Idealisation
Inga Vermeulen, Georg Brun, Christoph Baumberger -
Five Ways of (not) Defining Exemplification
Jakob Steinbrenner -
Art-Samples.On the Connection between Art and Science
Remei Capdevila Werning - Nelson Goodman’s Autographic-Allographic Distinction in Architecture: The Case of
Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion
Christoph Baumberger -
Ambiguity in Architecture
Sabine Ammon - Language of Architecture. Some Reflections on Nelson Goodman’s Theory of Symbols
Axel Spree -
Fiction, Truth, and Knowledge
Contributors