Formal Philosophy - Hardcover

Vincent F. Hendricks; John Symons

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8799101319 ISBN 13: 9788799101313

Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP, 2005

Synopsis

Formal Philosophy is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in formal philosophy.

About this title

From the Author:

Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Epistemology, Logic and
Methodology and member of IIP ¨C Institut Internationale de
Philosophie. He is the author of many books including Mainstream
and Formal Epistemology, 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 ¦µLOG¨CThe Network
for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications.Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Epistemology, Logic and
Methodology and member of IIP ¨C Institut Internationale de
Philosophie. He is the author of many books including Mainstream
and Formal Epistemology, 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 ¦µLOG¨CThe 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, Universit¨¦ 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.

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
practitioners¨Cnot the quick answers one might give over an entrecôte, 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 8799101319
• ISBN 13: 9788799101313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264