From Arithmetic to Metaphysics: A Path through Philosophical Logic

by Ciro de Florio (Editor), Alessandro Giordani (Editor)

Overview

Published in honor of Sergio Galvan, this collection concentrates on the application of logical and mathematical methods for the study of central issues in formal philosophy. The volume is subdivided into four sections, dedicated to logic and philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, metaphysics and philosophy of religion. The contributions adress, from a logical point of view, some of the main topics in these areas. The first two sections include formal treatments of: truth and paradoxes; definitions by abstraction; the status of abstract objects, such as mathematical objects and universal concepts; and the structure of explicit knowledge. The last two sections include papers on classical problems in philosophy of science, such as the status of subjective probability, the notion of verisimilitude, the notion of approximation, and the theory of mind and mental causation, and specific issues in metaphysics and philosophy of religion, such as the ontology of species, actions, and intelligible worlds, and the logic of religious belonging.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110529012
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	01/09/2018
Series:	Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , #73
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	401
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ciro De Florio and Alessandro Giordani, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Hilbert's τ and ε in Proof Theory: a proof-theoretical representation of universal and existential statements Michele Abrusci 1

Truths in Contemporary Set Theory Tatiana Arrigoni 23

Gödel, Searle, and the Computational Theory of the (Other) Mind Marco Buzzoni 41

Naïve Proof and Curry's Paradox Massimilano Carrara 61

Exploring and extending the landscape of conjunctive approaches to verisimilitude Roberto Festa Gustavo Cevolani 69

Mental Causation and Nonreductive Physicalism, an Unhappy Marriage? Antonella Corradini 89

On Grounding Arithmetic Ciro De Florio 103

Risk vs Logic. Karl Barth and Heinrich Scholz on Faith and Reason Lorenzo Fossati 119

On the Ontology of Biological Species Aldo Frigerio 135

Who is Afraid of Subjective Probability? Maria Carla Galavotti 151

Agent-causation and Its Place in Nature Georg Gasser 159

Quantified Modal Justification Logic with Existence Predicate Alessandro Giordani 179

The Case for Conceptualism Franz von Kutschera 195

Two days in the life of a genius Wolfgang Lenzen 207

Multiple Religious Belonging: A Logico-Philosophical Approach Winfried Löffler 241

Definitions by Abstraction in the Peano School Paolo Mancosu 261

Intelligible Worlds Uwe Meixner 289

Necessary Truths and Supervaluations Carlo Nicolai 309

The Wittgensteinian and the ontological (3-dimensional) reaction to the naturalistic challenge Edmund Runggaldier 331

Measure-Entailment and Support in the Logic of Approximate Generalizations Gerhard Schurz Ernest Adams (1926-2009) 341

Bibliography 373