Synthese, Volume 179

Volume 179, Number 1, March 2011

The philosophy of symbolic forms and the question of human culture: introductions to the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

Esther Oluffa Pedersen, Claus Festersen, Steen Brock, Stig Andur Pedersen:
Preface. 1-5
Esther Oluffa Pedersen, Claus Festersen, Steen Brock, Stig Andur Pedersen:
Acknowledgements. 7
John Michael Krois:
The priority of "symbolism" over language in Cassirer's philosophy. 9-20
Christiane Schmitz-Rigal:
Science and Art: physics as a symbolic formation. 21-41
Peer F. Bundgaard:
The grammar of aesthetic intuition: on Ernst Cassirer's concept of symbolic form in the visual arts. 43-57
Oswald Schwemmer:
Event and form: two themes in the Davos-debate between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer. 59-73
Aud Sissel Hoel:
Thinking "difference" differently: Cassirer versus Derrida on symbolic mediation. 75-91
Steen Brock:
A resolute reading of Cassirer's anthropology. 93-113
Ernst Wolfgang Orth:
Ernst Cassirer as cultural scientist. 115-134
Ursula Renz:
From philosophy to criticism of myth: Cassirer's concept of myth. 135-152
Martina Plümacher:
Philosophical research on cognition. 153-167
Frederik Stjernfelt:
Simple animals and complex biology: Von Uexküll's two-fold influence on Cassirer's philosophy. 169-186
Sirkku Ikonen:
Cassirer's critique of culture - Between the Scylla of Lebensphilosophie and the Charybdis of the Vienna Circle. 187-202

Logic and philosophy of science in the footsteps of E. W. Beth

Johan van Benthem, Theo Kuipers, Henk Visser:
Introduction. 203-206
Pieter A. M. Seuren:
How I remember Evert Beth. 207-210
Rohit Parikh:
Beth definability, interpolation and language splitting. 211-221
Cédric Dégremont, Jonathan A. Zvesper:
Dynamics we can believe in: a view from the Amsterdam School on the centenary of Evert Willem Beth. 223-238
Katrin Schulz:
"If you'd wiggled A, then B would've changed" - Causality and counterfactual conditionals. 239-251
Dov M. Gabbay:
Reactive intuitionistic tableaux. 253-269
Dennis Dieks:
E. W. Beth as a philosopher of physics. 271-284
Alexandru Baltag, Sonja Smets:
Quantum logic as a dynamic logic. 285-306
Gerhard Schurz:
Structural correspondence between theories and convergence to truth. 307-320
F. Dizadji-Bahmani, Roman Frigg, Stephan Hartmann:
Confirmation and reduction: a Bayesian account. 321-338
Hannes Leitgeb:
Logic in general philosophy of science: old things and new things. 339-350

Dylan Dodd:
Quasi-miracles, typicality, and counterfactuals. 351-360
Daniel James McArthur:
Discovery, theory change and structural realism. 361-376
Douglas Walton:
Defeasible reasoning and informal fallacies. 377-407
Christoph Kelp:
In defence of virtue epistemology. 409-433
Elaine Landry:
How to be a structuralist all the way down. 435-454
Bence Nanay:
Replication without replicators. 455-477
Clayton Mitchell Littlejohn:
Evidence and armchair access. 479-500
Haim Gaifman:
Erratum to: Vagueness, tolerance and contextual logic. 501-502

Robert van Rooij:
Revealed preference and satisficing behavior. 1-12
Oliver J. Board, Kim-Sau Chung, Burkhard C. Schipper:
Two models of unawareness: comparing the object-based and the subjective-state-space approaches. 13-34
Luc Bovens, Claus Beisbart:
Measuring voting power for dependent voters through causal models. 35-56
Thomas Ågotnes, Hans P. van Ditmarsch:
What will they say? - Public Announcement Games. 57-85
Takuya Masuzawa, Koji Hasebe:
Iterative information update and stability of strategies. 87-102
Jeffrey Kline, Shravan Luckraz:
A note on the relationship between graphs and information protocols. 103-114

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