Advances in Scientific Philosophy

Essays in Honour of Paul Weingartner on the Occasion in the 60th Anniversary of his Birthday

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Volume Editors:
Gerhard Schurz
and
Georg J.W. Dorn
Copyright Year:
1991
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Preface
Confirmation without Paradoxes
Relevance, Relatedness and Restricted Set Theory
Relevant Deductive Inference: Criteria and Logics
Epistemic Logic without Logical Omniscience
On Professor Weingartner’s Contribution to Epistemic Logic
An Application of Weingartner’s Logical Proposal for Rational Belief, Knowledge and Assumption
Deontic Tense Logic: Restricted Equivalence of Certain Forms of Conditional Obligation and a Solution to Chisholm’s Paradox
Relational Formalization of Temporal Logics
What Is (or At Least Appears to Be) Wrong with Intuitionistic Logic?
Quantum Theory in the Light of Modern Experiments
An Inconsistency between Quantum Mechanics and Its Interpretation: The “Disaster” of Objectification
Substances, Physical Systems, and Quantum Mechanics
Reductionism and the New Theories of Self-Organization
Unification as an Epistemological Problem
Atomism and Holism in the Vienna Circle
Is the Notion of Truth Applicable to Scientific Theories?
Structuralist Explications of Dialectics
Pragmatics in the Structuralist View of Science
A World of Propensities. Two New Views of Causality
Inductive Support
Kripke’s Doubts about Meaning
A Linguistic Approach to Frege’s Puzzles
Inadequacies of Intension and Extension
Inadequacies of Peter and Paul
Some Remarks on the “Slingshot” Argument
Real Facts
The Case against Value-Free Belief
Mutual Beliefs and Social Characteristics
A Pie-Model of Moral Responsibility?
Are Collectives Morally Responsible?
The Electronic Self
Faith and Science
The Beginnings of Formalization in Theology
Some Comments on Paul Weingartner’s Concept of a Scientific Theology
Suitable Descriptions for Suitable Categories
Why We Cherish Exactness
Exactness and Philosophy
Paul Weingartner Philosophy at Work
Back Matter
Bibliography of Paul Weingartner’s Publications 1961–1991
List of Contributors
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
644 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004457232

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