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Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II period". Goodman has left his mark in many fields of philosophical investigation: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Metaphysics, the General Theory of Symbols, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Art, all have been challenged and enriched by the problems he has shown up, the projects he developed from them and the solutions he has suggested. In August 2006 a couple of Goodman aficionados met in Munich to celebrate the Centennial. The proceedings of the ensuing international conference are documented in this volume. The contributions attest the fact that Goodman's thinking still holds many treasures.
List of contents
Oliver R. Scholz
The Life and Opinions of Nelson Goodman - A Very Short Introduction
Daniel Cohnitz
The Unity of Goodman's Thought
Marcus Rossberg
Leonard, Goodman, and the Development of the Calculus of Individuals
WOLFGANG HEYDRICH
Counterfactuals beyond Paradox
Ansgar Seide
Contextualist References in Nelson Goodman's Solution to the "New Riddle of Induction"
Karl-Georg Niebergall
On "About": Definitions and Principles
Richard SchantzGoodman on Truth
Thomas Splett
How Much of a Relativist Is Goodman?
Mark Textor
Exemplification and Idealisation
Inga Vermeulen, Georg Brun, Christoph Baumberger
Five Ways of (not) Defining Exemplification
Jakob Steinbrenner
Art-Samples. On the Connection between Art and Science
Remei Capdevila Werning
Nelson Goodman's Autographic-Allographic Distinction in Architecture:
The Case of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion
Christoph Baumberger
Ambiguity in Architecture
Sabine Ammon
Language of Architecture. Some Reflections on Nelson Goodman's Theory of Symbols
Axel Spree
Fiction, Truth, and Knowledge
Contributors
About the author
Gerhard Ernst, geb. 1971, studierte Physik und Philosophie in München. Nach seiner Professur in Stuttgart ist er seit 2012 ist er Inhaber des Lehrstuhls I für Philosophie an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Ernst wurde mit dem Wolfgang-Stegmüller-Preis der Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie ausgezeichnet und war von 2005 - 2010 Mitglied der Jungen Akademie.
Jakob Steinbrenner, ist akademischer Rat am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Stuttgart. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Theoretische Philosophie, Kunst- und Zeichentheorie.
