Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism Books

Book SynopsisDefeasibility, most generally speaking, means that given some set of conditions A, something else B will hold, unless or until defeating conditions C apply. While the term was introduced into philosophy by legal philosopher H.L.A. Hart in 1949, today, the concept of defeasibility is employed in many different areas of philosophy. This volume for the first time brings together contributions on defeasibility from epistemology (Mikael Janvid, Klemens Kappel, Hannes Ole Matthiessen, Marcus Willaschek, Michael Williams), legal philosophy (Frederick Schauer) and ethics and the philosophy of action (Claudia Blöser, R. Jay Wallace, Michael Quante and Katarzyna Paprzycka). The volume ends with an extensive bibliography (by Michael de Araujo Kurth).Table of ContentsPreface Claudia Blöser, Mikael Janvid, Hannes Ole Matthiessen & Marcus Willaschek: Introduction Michael Williams: Knowledge, Ascriptivism and Defeasible Concepts Klemens Kappel: Knowledge, Defeasibility, and the Gettier Problem Mikael Janvid: The Challenges of Traveling without Itinerary: The Overriding Case Hannes Ole Matthiessen: Entitlement and Public Accessibility of Epistemic Status Marcus Willaschek: Strawsonian Epistemology. What Epistemologists Can Learn from “Freedom and Resentment” Claudia Blöser: The Defeasible Structure of Ascriptions of Responsibility R. Jay Wallace: Comment on Claudia Blöser “The Defeasible Structure of Ascriptions of Responsibility” Claudia Blöser: Reply to Wallace Katarzyna Paprzycka: Can a Spasm Cause an Action? An Argument for Responsibilist Theories of Action Michael Quante: Autonomous by Default. Assessing “Non-Alienation” in John Christman’s Conception of Personal Autonomy Frederick Schauer: On the Open Texture of Law Michel de Araujo Kurth: Selected Thematic Bibliography of Work on Defeasibility in Philosophy and Related Disciplines

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Table of ContentsAbhandlungen/Articles M. Oreste Fiocco: An Absolute Principle of Truthmaking Daniel Alexander Milne: Everett’s Dilemma: How Fictional Realists Can Cope with Ontic Vagueness Carlo Penco: Indexicals as Demonstratives: On the Debate between Kripke and Künne Roberto Horácio De Sá Pereira: Phenomenal Concepts as Mental Files Ángel García Rodríguez: A Wittgensteinian Conception of Animal Minds Stefan Lukits: Carnap’s Conventionalism in Geometry Delia Belleri & Michele Palmira: Towards a Unified Notion of Disagreement Matthew Lee: Conciliationism Without Uniqueness Emanuel Viebahn: Against Context-Sensitivity Tests Christoph Kelp: How to Motivate Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology Ishtiyaque Haji: Event-Causal Libertarianism’s Control Conundrums Essay-Wettbewerb/Essay Competition Salim Hirèche & Sandra Villata: Eating Animals and the Moral Value of Non-Human Suffering Simon Gaus: Folgt aus dem Unwert der Tierhaltung ein Verbot des Fleischkonsums? Jens Tuider: Dürfen wir Tiere essen? Buchnotizen/Critical Notes Ion Tănăsescu (ed.): Franz Brentano’s Metaphysics and Psychology. Bucharest: Zeta Books. 2012. (Hamid Taieb) Biagio G. Tassone: From Psychology to Phenomenology: Franz Brentano’s Psychology From An Empirical Standpoint and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind. Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012 (Mark Textor) Jens Glatzer: Schönheit. Ein Klärungsversuch. Frankfurt a.M. [u.a.]: Ontos-Verlag. 2012. (Philipp Dollwetzel) Peter Lamarque: Work and Object. Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010. (Wolfgang Huemer)

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Book SynopsisThe volume contains new essays on Wittgenstein and on Quine. Six essays discuss crucial aspects of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics: Wittgenstein’s ontological quietism in relation to the realism vs. anti-realism debate, his thesis that mathematical propositions are rules of grammar, his perspectives on the nature of numbers, and on equinumerosity and surveyability, his treatment of mathematical formulas, and his disagreements with Brouwer over the infinite and the law of excluded middle. Six essays are dedicated to the philosophy of Willard Van Orman Quine: they discuss Quine’s stance towards the notion of meaning in linguistics and philosophy, his thesis of the indeterminacy of radical translation, his naturalism in semantics, his brand of nominalism, and his attempt to reconstruct possible worlds within an extensionalist framework.Table of ContentsSpecial Topic I. Wittgenstein (Guest Editors: Kai Büttner, Florian Demont, David Dolby, Anne-Katrin Schlegel) Introduction Pasquale Frascolla: Realism, Anti-Realism, Quietism: Wittgenstein’s Stance Severin Schroeder: Mathematical Propositions as Rules of Grammar Felix Mühlhölzer: How Arithmetic is about Numbers. A Wittgensteinian Perspective Mathieu Marion & Mitsuhiro Okada: Wittgenstein on Equinumerosity and Surveyability Esther Ramharter: Wittgenstein on Formulae Ian Rumfitt: Brouwer versus Wittgenstein on the Infinite and the Law of Excluded Middle Special Topic II. Quine (Guest Editor: Dirk Greimann) Introduction Peter Hylton: Significance in Quine Rogério Passos Severo: Are there Empirical Cases of Indeterminacy of Translation? Oswaldo Chateaubriand: Some Critical Remarks on Quine’s Thought Experiment of Radical Translation Dirk Greimann: A Tension in Quine’s Naturalistic Ontology of Semantics Guido Imaguire: In Defense of Quine’s Ostrich Nominalism Pedro Santos: Quinean Worlds: Possibilist Ontology in an Extensionalist Framework

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