Reduction - Abstraction - Analysis : Proceedings of the 31th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2008 / ed. by Alexander Hieke, Hannes Leitgeb.

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Table of Contents -- I. Reduction -- A PROOF OF NOMINALISM: AN EXERCISE IN SUCCESSFUL REDUCTION IN LOGIC -- PRESERVATION OF EMPIRICAL SUCCESS AND INTERTHEORETICAL CORRESPONDENCE: JUSTIFYING REALISM WITHOUT THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT -- EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY AND RAMSIFICATION, II -- ELIMINATING MODALITY FROM THE DETERMINISM DEBATE? MODELS VS. EQUATIONS OF PHYSICAL THEORIES -- DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS: NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL? -- THE "MULTIREALIZATION" OF MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY -- PESSIMISTIC META-INDUCTION AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF SCIENCE -- WEAK PHYSICALISM AND SPECIAL SCIENCE ONTOLOGY -- ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE? -- ONTIC GENERATION: GETTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BASICS -- WHAT REDUCTIONISTS BELIEVE IN -- SUPERVENIENCE AND MORAL REALISM -- ALTERNATIVE REDUCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC DEONTIC LOGICS -- II. Abstraction -- THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ABSTRACTION -- HOW ABSTRACTION WORKS -- THIN OBJECTS -- RUSSELL'S MANY POINTS -- FROM DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS TO SETS OF ORDERED PAIRS -- DIAGONALIZATION, THE LIAR PARADOX, AND THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE FORMAL SYSTEM PRESENTED IN THE APPENDIX TO FREGE'S GRUNDGESETZE: VOLUME II -- A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION FOR NEO-FREGEANISM -- ED ZALTA'S VERSION OF NEO-LOGICISM - A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT -- REPLY TO P. EBERT AND M. ROSSBERG'S FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT -- III. Analysis -- ON THE BENEFITS OF A REDUCTION OF MODAL PREDICATES TO MODAL OPERATORS -- CALCULI OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOME EXTENSIONS: AN OVERVIEW -- DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND ELIMINATION -- FROM LANGUAGE GAMES TO SOCIAL SOFTWARE -- ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GAMES IN EXTENSIVE FORM AND GAMES IN STRATEGIC FORM -- TWO ACCOUNTS OF SIMILARITY COMPARED -- CONTEXTUALISM, RELATIVISM, AND FACTIVITY. ANALYZING 'KNOWLEDGE' AFTER THE NEW LINGUISTIC TURN IN EPISTEMOLOGY -- Backmatter

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Philosophers often have tried to either reduce "disagreeable" objects or concepts to (more) acceptable objects or concepts. Reduction is regarded attractive by those who subscribe to an ideal of ontological parsimony. But the topic is not just restricted to traditional metaphysics or ontology. In the philosophy of mathematics, abstraction principles, such as Hume's principle, have been suggested to support a reconstruction of mathematics by logical means only. In the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, the logical analysis of language has long been regarded to be the dominating paradigm, and liberalized projects of logical reconstruction remain to be driving forces of modern philosophy. This volume collects contributions comprising all those topics, including articles by Alexander Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, James Ladyman, Rohit Parikh, Gerhard Schurz, Peter Simons, Crispin Wright and Edward N. Zalta.

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