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This volume presents translations of key writings by the great 19th-century philosopher Bernard Bolzano, on what is now called grounding, a notion of prime importance in metaphysics and philosophy of explanation. These writings, some of them translated for the first time, are accompanied by new essays on this area of Bolzano's work.
List of contents
- Part I: Introduction
- 1: Preamble
- 2: A survey of Bolzano's theory of grounding
- 3: On the contents of this volume
- Part II: Bolzano's writings on grounding (in English translations)
- 4: Early period: scientific method and the foundations of mathematics
- 5: Middle period: theology and metaphysics
- 6: Mature period: A theory of grounding
- Part III: Research papers on Bolzano's theory
- 7: Marko Malink: Aristotle and Bolzano on grounding
- 8: Kevin Mulligan: Logic, logical norms, and normative grounding
- 9: Kit Fine: Some remarks on Bolzano on ground
- 10: Mark Textor: Grounding, simplicity, and repetition
- 11: Francesca Poggiolesi: Bolzano, the (appropriate) relevant logic and grounding rules for implication
- 12: Edgar Morscher: The grounds of moral "truths''
- 13: Paul Rusnock: Grounding in practice: Bolzano's Purely Analytic Proof in the light of the Contributions
- 14: Marc Lange: Bolzano, the parallelogram of forces, and scientific explanation
- 15: Benjamin Schnieder: A fundamental being-Bolzano's cosmological argument and its Leibnizian roots
About the author
Stefan Roski studied Philosophy at Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He received a PhD in Philosophy from VU University Amsterdam in 2014. Since 2015 he has been working as Research Associate at Hamburg University.
Benjamin Schnieder specializes in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Language and Logic. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Geneva in 2002, under the supervision of Kevin Mulligan and Wolfgang Künne. Subsequently he taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg (2003-2007) and then became the Director of the junior research group Phlox at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2008-2011, funded by the German Research Foundation). In 2011 he accepted a Professorship for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. In 2021 he started as a Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Vienna.
Summary
This volume presents translations of key writings by the great 19th-century philosopher Bernard Bolzano, on what is now called grounding, a notion of prime importance in metaphysics and philosophy of explanation. These writings, some of them translated for the first time, are accompanied by new essays on this area of Bolzano's work.
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This substantial volume is intended to increase the visibility of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848), an underappreciated 19th-century Bohemian philosopher, theologian, and mathematician...The collection focuses on Bolzano's account of grounding, a metaphysical notion that links ontology, truth, causation, explanation, and inference.
