Books in the Perspektiven der Analytischen Philosophie/Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy series

This volume contains Peter Philipp's writings on logic and logical philosophy. The first part of the text presents studies on modal logic, practical deduction and deontic logic. The second part contains an overall appreciation of his work and studies on specific aspects of it.

Proceedings of the von Wright conference at the Center for Intedisciplinary Studies in Bielefeld, April 26 to 27, 1996. Georg Henrik von Wright, born 1916, is an important analytical philosopher of the 20th century.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Aristotle's Theory of Predication -- Aristotle's Regress Argument -- Alexander of Aphrodisias, Cicero, and Aristotle's Definition of Possibility -- Fonseca on Topics -- Modes of Skepticism in Medieval Philosophy -- Obligations as Thought Experiments -- Utrum propositio de futuro sit determinate vera vel falsa (Antonio Andrés and John Duns Scotus) -- Domingo de Soto (1494-1560) on Analogy and Equivocation -- The Triplex Status Naturae and its Justification -- The Semantics of Ramon Llull -- The Doctrine of Descent in Jeronimo Pardo: Meaning, Inference, Truth -- What's the Matter with Matter: Materia Propositionum in the Post-Medieval Period -- Copulatio in Peter of Capua (12th Century) and the Nature of the Proposition -- Wyclif on sensus compositus et divisus -- Some Examples of Logic in New Spain (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century) -- Necessity and the Galilean Revolution -- Peirce's Concept of Truth within the Context of his Conception of Logic -- Peirce's Concept of Proposition -- Scholarship on the Relations between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles S. Peirce -- Arithmetical Abstraction in Aristotle and Frege -- The Role of Subsistent Propositions and Logical Forms in Russell's 1913 Philosophical Logic and in the Russell-Wittgenstein Dispute -- Are the Objects of the Tractatus Phenomenological Objects? -- Does a Proposition affirm every Proposition that Follows from it? -- Carnap's Reconstruction of Intuitionistic Logic in The Logical Syntax of Language -- Some Influences of Hermann Graßmann's Program on Modern Logic -- Indeterminism and Future Contingency in non-Classical Logics -- Research on the History of Logic at Erlangen -- Index -- Backmatter

This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the "Society of Analytical Philosophy", Munich 1997. Papers selected contribute to the development of the discipline and also address topics of general interest.