Representation, Evidence, and Justification

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Michael Frauchiger, Wilhelm K. Essler (Eds.)
Representation, Evidence, and Justification
Themes from Suppes

This anthology assembles original contributions by leading analytical philosophers to a broad range of topics on which Suppes has set out ideas which still point the way ahead. All the papers included were originally given at the 1^st International Lauener Symposium on Analytical Philosophy, which accompanied the Presentation of the first Lauener Prize to Patrick Suppes. His detailed commentaries on each of the revised articles as well as the added interview elicit a spirit of constructive academic conversation. The book joins together contributions by Patrick Suppes, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Nancy Cartwright, Wilhelm K. Essler, Steven French, Stephan Hartmann, and Michael Frauchiger. The collection as a whole puts a different and stimulating perspective on a variety of issues in the methodology of science and philosophy.

About the editors:

Michael Frauchiger, Dr. phil., teaches with the Open University and has been an Advanced Research Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation as well as a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Berne. He is manager of the Lauener Foundation and member of the foundation council. He has published on epistemology and methodology of science, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language and logics, ontology, metaphilosophy, and the history of analytical philosophy.

Wilhelm K. Essler, Prof. Dr. phil., is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of Frankfurt am Main and president of the Lauener Foundation. His research activity centres on philosophy of science, logics, ontology and epistemology as well as, more recently, on the philosophy of Buddhism. He is a member of the Institut International de Philosophie and has been one of the refounding editors of the journal Erkenntnis. His numerous publications include: Analytische Philosophie, Induktive Logik, Wissenschaftstheorie I-IV, Grundzüge der Logik I-II (with R. F. Martínez Cruzado and E. Brendel), Theorie und Erfahrung (with J. Labude and S. Ucsnay), Philosophie des Buddhismus (with U. Mamat).