From logic to art: themes from Nelson Goodman

✍ Scribed by Gerhard Ernst, Jakob Steinbrenner, Oliver R. Scholz (editors)

• Publisher: Ontos-Verlag
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• 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 Languageand 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 Goodmans thinking still holds many treasures.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Oliver R. Scholz - The Life and Opinions of Nelson Goodman – A Very Short Introduction
......Page 10
Daniel Cohnitz - The Unity of Goodman’s Thought
......Page 42
Marcus Rossberg - Leonard, Goodman, and the Development of
the Calculus of Individuals......Page 60
Wolfgang Heydrich - Counterfactuals beyond Paradox
......Page 80
Ansgar Seide - Contextualist References in NelsonGoodman’s Solution to the “New Riddle of
Induction”......Page 130
Karl-Georg Niebergall -
On “About”: Definitions and Principles......Page 146
Richard Schantz -
Goodman on Truth......Page 180
Thomas Splett - How Much of a Relativist Is Goo
dman?......Page 200
Mark Textor -
Exemplification and Idealisation......Page 216
Inga Vermeulen, Georg Brun, Christoph Baumberger -
Five Ways of (not) Defining Exemplification......Page 228
Jakob Steinbrenner -
Art-Samples.On the Connection between Art and Science......Page 260
Remei Capdevila Werning - Nelson Goodman’s Autographic-Allographic Distinction in Architecture: The Case of
Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion......Page 278
Christoph Baumberger -
Ambiguity in Architecture......Page 302
Sabine Ammon - Language of Architecture. Some Reflections on Nelson Goodman’s Theory of Symbols
......Page 330
Axel Spree -
Fiction, Truth, and Knowledge......Page 338
Contributors......Page 354