Formal Philosophy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8799101300 ISBN 13: 9788799101306

Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP, 2005

Synopsis

Formal Philosophy is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented tosome of the most influential and prominent scholars in formal philosophy.

About this title

About the Author

Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Epistemology, Logic and Methodology and member of IIP - Institut Internationale de Philosophie. He is the author of many books including Mainstream and Formal Epistemology, The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge, Feisty Fragments, Logical Lyrics and 500 CC: Computer Citations. Other books include Self-Reference, Proof Theory, Probability Theory and Knowledge Contributors. Editor of Synthese and Synthese Library he is also the founder of PHILOG - The Network for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications.

John Symons teaches philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso and is an associate member of l'Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Universitet de Paris 1. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of two books on Daniel Dennett's philosophy, On Dennett and Daniel Dennett: Le Naturalisme en Chantier. Other books include Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics: Essays on the Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka and Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science. Symons has edited Synthese and Synthese Library since 2002 and has represented Ireland in the Institut Internationale de Philosophie since 2004.

From the Back Cover

Why do you do philosophy that way? Do you believe all philosophy could be done that way? Do you think it should be done that way? These are questions one seldom asks, except perhaps at dinner. Yet there is a lot one could learn from the answers, especially when they come from philosophers who do have a distinguished way of doing their job. Formal Philosophy identifies one such way and collects the answers of its eminent practitioners - not the quick answers one might give over an entrecôte, but the answers one gives when seriously prompted to reflect upon their daily profession. An enticing, provocative, completely novel way of surveying the landscape of contemporary philosophy. - Achille Varzi, Columbia University

From the Inside Flap

This is a fabulous collection. Hendricks and Symons have performed an important service to the entire philosophical community. The interviews are not only rewarding in and of themselves but they will help the reader understand what has been going on and has been achieved in the past fifty years. - Ernie Lepore, Rutgers

Edition details

• Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8799101300
• ISBN 13: 9788799101306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Hendricks Vincent F, Symons John