Formal Philosophy - Softcover

Johan Van Benthem; Ruth Barcan Marcus; Mevin Fitting; Dagfinn Føllesdal; Timothy Williamson; Clark Glymour; Susan Haack; Jaakko Hintikka

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

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 practitionersšCnot the quick answers one might give over an entrecÎte, 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: Vincent F. Hendricks, John Symons