Author | Stegmรผller, Wolfgang. author |
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Title | Collected Papers on Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and History of Philosophy [electronic resource] : Volume I / by Wolfgang Stegmรผller |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1129-7 |
Descript | XIII, 248 p. online resource |
1. The Problem of Universals Then and Now -- 1. The Problem -- 2. Platonism and Nominalism -- 3. Historical Background -- 4. Epistemological Discussion of Platonism and Nominalism -- 5. Constructive Conceptualism -- 6. The Three Ontological Positions -- 7. Summary -- 2. Towards a Rational Reconstruction of Kantโs Metaphysics of Experience -- I: Kantโs Riddle of Experience -- 1. On Rational Reconstructions of Philosophical Theories -- 2. The Place of Kantโs Theory of Experience within His Theoretical Philosophy -- 3. Synthetic a priori Propositions -- 4. The Existential Hypothesis in Kantโs Fundamental Question -- 5. The Influence of Isaac Newton, Chr. Wolff and D. Hume upon Kantโs Conception of Science -- 6. Kantโs Antinomy of Experience -- 7. Kantโs Project for a Solution: Synthetic a priori Statements as the Way out of the Dilemma -- 8. A Remark on the Relation between the โRegressiveโ and the โProgressiveโ Argument -- II: The Logical Structure of the Progressive Argument -- 1. The Aim of the Progressive Argument -- 2. Kant as a Rationalist Precursor of the Theory of Eliminative and Enumerative Induction -- 3. Kantโs Theory of Structural Reduction or a priori Elimination (The Modal Argument) -- 4. Empirical Confirmation and Consolidation -- 5. The Gap in Kantโs Argument -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- 3. A Model Theoretic Explication of Wittgensteinโs Picture Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intensional Relational Systems, Model Worlds, Categorical Identity -- 3. Isomorphism, Homomorphism, Picture, Truth and Falsity -- 4. Logical Spaces, Isomorphism between Logical Spaces, Logically Adequate and Inadequate Pictures -- 5. Application of the Picture Theory to Language -- 4. Phenomenalism and Its Difficulties -- 1. Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics and Phenomenalism -- 2. A Characterization of Phenomenalism -- 3. Motives for Phenomenalism -- 4. Difficulties in Carrying out the Phenomenalistic Programme -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. Ontology and Analyticity -- 1. The Ontological Problem -- 2. The Problem of Analytic Statements -- 3. Concluding Remarks -- Index of Names