Masses of Formal Philosophy is an outgrowth of Formal Philosophy. That book gathered the responses of some of the most prominent formal philosophers to five relatively open and broad questions initiating a discussion of metaphilosophical themes and problems surrounding the use of formal methods in philosophy. Including contributions from a wide range of philosophers, Masses of Formal Philosophy contains important new responses to the original five questions.
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, Thought 2 Talk, 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.