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This book collects major original essays developed from lectures
given at the award of the Lauener Prize 2016 to T. M. Scanlon for
his outstanding oeuvre in Analytical philosophy. In "Contractualism
and Justification," Scanlon identifies some difficulties in his
theory and explores possible ways to deal with them. In "Improving
Scanlon's Contractualism," D. Parfit recommends revisions and
extensions of Scanlon's theory, while R. Forst suggests in
"Justification Fundamentalism" that Scanlon may want to replace
reason with justification as his foundational concept. T. Nagel
raises fundamental questions concerning "Moral Reality and Moral
Progress," and S. Mantel offers in "On How to Explain Rational
Motivation" a critical discussion of Scanlon's cognitivist theory
of motivation. Z. Stemplowska does the same for Scanlon's
conception of responsibility in "Substantive Responsibility and the
Causal Thesis," and S. Olsaretti suggests in "Equality of
Opportunity and Justified Inequalities" an alternative to Scanlon's
arguments against economic inequalities. All contributors receive
extensive replies by Scanlon. For anyone interested in Scanlon's
seminal work in moral and political philosophy, the present volume
is utterly indispensable.
This volume opens up stimulating new perspectives on a broad
variety of Barcan Marcus's concerns ranging from the systematic
foundation and interpretation of quantified modal logic, nature of
extensionality, necessity of identity, direct reference theory for
proper names, notions of essentialism, second-order modal logic,
modal metaphysics, properties and classes, substitutional and
objectual quantification, actualism, the Barcan formula, possibilia
and possible-world semantics to epistemic and deontic modalities,
non-language-centered theories of belief, accounts of rationality,
consistency of a moral code, moral dilemmas, and much more. The
contributions demonstrate that Barcan Marcus's original and clear
ideas have had a formative influence on the direction in which
certain themes central to today's philosophical debate have
developed. Furthermore, the volume includes an illuminating
intellectual autobiography from Barcan Marcus herself as well as an
informal interview containing her unfiltered, frank answers. The
book brings together contributions by Ruth Barcan Marcus, Timothy
Williamson, Dagfinn Follesdal, Joelle Proust, Pascal Engel, Edgar
Morscher, Erik J. Olsson, and Michael Frauchiger.
This collection concentrates on vital themes from Michael Dummett,
one of the most influential and creative analytic philosophers of
our time. The contributors, who include some of Dummett's
distinguished former students, critically reflect on various
concerns of Dummett's ground-breaking work in philosophy of
language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics and logic. The
essays direct towards aspects of Dummett's pioneering work in the
history of analytical philosophy, particularly his interpretations
of the works of Frege and of Wittgenstein, which in conjunction
with Dummett's own highly original ideas on truth and meaning have
shaped decisive contemporary debates concerning notably the
distinction between realism and anti-realism. Further, the volume
includes a cheerfully serious excursion into popular philosophy by
Dummett himself and reveals less known facets of Dummett's
many-sided work and activities such as his political philosophy of
immigration and asylum, and beyond that, his untiring and
warm-hearted campaign for racial justice and humanity.
Contributors: Michael Dummett, Eva Picardi, Crispin Wright, Timothy
Williamson, Ian Rumfitt, Daniel Isaacson, Dag Prawitz, Dale
Jacquette, Alex Burri, Michael Frauchiger.
This anthology assembles original contributions by leading
analytical philosophers to a broad range of topics on which Suppes
has set out ideas which still point the way ahead. All the papers
included were originally given at the 1st International Lauener
Symposium on Analytical Philosophy, which accompanied the
Presentation of the first Lauener Prize to Patrick Suppes. His
detailed commentaries on each of the revised articles as well as
the added interview elicit a spirit of constructive academic
conversation. The book joins together contributions by Patrick
Suppes, Dagfinn Follesdal, Nancy Cartwright, Wilhelm K. Essler,
Steven French, Stephan Hartmann, and Michael Frauchiger. The
collection as a whole puts a different and stimulating perspective
on a variety of issues in the methodology of science and
philosophy.
Having its seeds in the 2nd International Lauener Symposium held in
honour of Dagfinn Follesdal, the present collection contains a
rich, kaleidoscopic ensemble of previously unpublished
contributions by leading authors, representing diverse approaches
to a variety of philosophical themes on which Follesdal has had a
longstanding, formative impact. Follesdal himself contributes an
orientating essay continuing to develop his pioneering theory of
reference as well as in-depth commentaries on each of the other
authors elaborated papers plus candid answers in the added
interview. The volume assembles a wealth of original articles
containing in part direct discussions of Follesdal s work and
covering a broad range of topics like subjectivity,
intersubjectivity, objectivity, rationality, logics and
mathematics, choice theory, values, modalities, intentionality,
individuation, perception, communication, meaning, reference, the
slingshot, one- and two-sorted semantics, evidence,
neuropsychology, space and time, science and society, methodology,
fallibilism, the relative a priori, justification, holism, the
life-world, reflective equilibrium, empathy, and ethics. Moreover
the book includes an incisive memoir of Follesdal the philosopher
as well as a spanning interview with him, which are both critically
directing toward Follesdal s subtly differentiated understanding of
the dynamic philosophical horizon he shares in. With contributions
from Dagfinn Follesdal, Charles Parsons, Patrick Suppes, Jon
Elster, John Perry, Michael Friedman, Dag Prawitz, Wilhelm K.
Essler, David Woodruff Smith, Olav Gjelsvik, Graciela De Pierris,
Nils Roll-Hansen, Christian Beyer, Oystein Linnebo, Michael
Frauchiger. Excerpt Open publication"
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