Gerhard Ernst, Jakob Steinbrenner, Oliver R. Scholz (eds.)
New Brunswick, NJ :
Ontos-Verlag,
2009
346 p. ;
22 cm
Philosophische Forschung ;
Bd. 7
"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 investigation: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Metaphysics, the General Theory of Symbols, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Art, all have been challenged and enriched by the problems he has shown up, the projects he developed from them and the solutions he has suggested. In August 2006 a couple of Goodman aficionados met in Munich to celebrate the Centennial. The proceedings of the ensuing international conference are documented in this volume. The contributions attest the fact that Goodman's thinking still holds many treasures."--Description on Deutsche Nationale Bibliothek web site
Includes bibliographical references
The life and opinions of Nelson Goodman : a very short introduction / Oliver R. Schultz -- The unity of Goodman's thought / Daniel Cohnitz -- Leonard, Goodman, and the development of the Calculus of individuals / Marcus Rossberg -- Counterfactuals beyond paradox / Wolfgang Heydrich -- ̀Contextualist references in Nelson Goodman's solution to the "New riddle of induction" / Ansgar Seide -- On "about" : definitions and principles / Karl-Georg Niebergall -- Goodman on truth / Richard Schantz -- How much of a relativist is Goodman? / Thomas Splett -- Exemplification and idealisation / Mark Textor -- Five ways of (not) defining exemplification / Inga Vermeulen, Georg Brun, Christoph Baumberger -- Art-samples : on the connection between art and science / Jakob Steinbrenner -- Nelson Goodman's autographic-allographic distinction in architecture : the case of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion -- Ambiguity in architecture / Christoph Baumberger -- Language of architecture, some reflections on Nelson Goodman's theory of symbols / Sabine Ammon -- Fiction, truth and knowledge / Axel Spree