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From Logic to Art : Themes from Nelson Goodman /

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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 inve...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Ernst, Gerhard (Editor), Scholz, Oliver R. (Editor), Steinbrenner, Jakob (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Warschau/Berlin : De Gruyter Open, [2009]
Series:Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical Research ; 7
Subjects:
Art > Philosophy.
Art > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY / Criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • The Life and Opinions of Nelson Goodman
  • A Very Short Introduction / Scholz, Oliver R.
  • The Unity of Goodman's Thought / Cohnitz, Daniel
  • Leonard, Goodman, and the Development of the Calculus of Individuals / Rossberg, Marcus
  • Counterfactuals beyond Paradox / Heydrich, Wolfgang
  • Contextualist References in Nelson Goodman's Solution to the "New Riddle of Induction" / Seide, Ansgar
  • On "About": Definitions and Principles / Niebergall, Karl-Georg
  • Goodman on Truth / Schantz, Richard
  • How Much of a Relativist Is Goodman? / Splett, Thomas
  • Exemplification and Idealisation / Textor, Mark
  • Five Ways of (not) Defining Exemplification / Vermeulen, Inga ; Brun, Georg ; Baumberger, Christoph
  • Art-Samples. On the Connection between Art and Science / Steinbrenner, Jakob
  • Nelson Goodman's Autographic-Allographic Distinction in Architecture: The Case of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion / Werning, Remei Capdevila
  • Ambiguity in Architecture / Baumberger, Christoph
  • Language of Architecture. Some Reflections on Nelson Goodman's Theory of Symbols / Ammon, Sabine
  • Fiction, Truth, and Knowledge / Spree, Axel
  • Contributors.