Causality, Method, and Modality Essays in Honor of Jules Vuillemin
Deservedly so, Jules Vuillemin is widely respected and greatly admired. It is not simply that he has produced a large body of outstanding work, in many different areas of philosophy. Or that he combines to an unusual degree rigorous standards with a very wide perspective. Or even that in his path-br...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1991, 1991
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1991 |
| Series: | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- “Ma vie en bref”
- “Indeterminism or Instability, Does It Matter?”
- “Covariance and the Non-Preference of Coordinate Systems”
- “Kant’s ‘Platonic’ Argument in Behalf of the A Priori Character of the Representation of Space”
- “The Sense of the A Priori Method in Leibniz’s Dynamics”
- “Méthode axiomatique et idée de système dans l’oeuvre de Jules Vuillemin”
- “Algebra, Constructibility, and the Indeterminate”
- “On Whether an Answer to a Why-Question Is an Explanation If and Only If It Yields Scientific Understanding”
- “Some Revisionary Proposals About Belief and Believing”
- “Quantification, Modality, and Semantic Ascent”
- “Temporal Necessity, Time and Ability: a philosophical commentary on Diodorus Cronus’ Master Argument as given in the interpretation of Jules Vuillemin”
- “Replies”
- List of the Publications of Jules Vuillemin, 1947–1989