Title	Causality, Method, and Modality [electronic resource] : Essays in Honor of Jules Vuillemin / edited by Gordon G. Brittan
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1991
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3348-7
Descript	VIII, 241 p. online resource

Deservedly so, Jules Vuillemin is widely respected and greatly admired. It is not simply that he has produced a large body of outstanding work, in many different areas of philosophy. Or that he combines to an unusual degree rigorous standards with a very wide perspective. Or even that in his path-breaking accounts of algebra, of !)escartes, of Kant and of Russell, he showed in new and profound ways how the histories of science and philosophy could be used to illuminate each other. It is also that he has pursued the application of formal techniques and the defense of liberal institutions with a rare singlemindedness and courage. In a time and place where the former were generally ignored and the latter often attacked, he carried on, at some personal cost, embodying a traditional and ideal conception of the philosophical life, bridging national differences. Those who know him also treasure his friendship. Always curious, he delights in new facts and new experiences, and continually heightens the perception of those around him. Almost yearly, at the College de France he introduced brand new courses always with fresh and fruitful inSights. Exceptionally solicitous, he follows the lives of the families around him in great detail. The devotion of his students is legend. His personal energy is also legend. Many of us have followed him bounding up the stairs two at a time or through the gardens of the Luxembourg, his wit and irony apace

โMa vie en brefโ -- โIndeterminism or Instability, Does It Matter?โ -- โCovariance and the Non-Preference of Coordinate Systemsโ -- โKantโs โPlatonicโ Argument in Behalf of the A Priori Character of the Representation of Spaceโ -- โThe Sense of the A Priori Method in Leibnizโs Dynamicsโ -- โMรฉthode axiomatique et idรฉe de systรจme dans lโoeuvre de Jules Vuilleminโ -- โAlgebra, Constructibility, and the Indeterminateโ -- โOn Whether an Answer to a Why-Question Is an Explanation If and Only If It Yields Scientific Understandingโ -- โSome Revisionary Proposals About Belief and Believingโ -- โQuantification, Modality, and Semantic Ascentโ -- โTemporal Necessity, Time and Ability: a philosophical commentary on Diodorus Cronusโ Master Argument as given in the interpretation of Jules Vuilleminโ -- โRepliesโ -- List of the Publications of Jules Vuillemin, 1947โ1989

1. Philosophy
2. History
3. Logic
4. Language and languages -- Philosophy
5. Philosophy and science
6. Philosophy
7. Philosophy of Science
8. Philosophy of Language
9. History
10. general
11. Logic