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55Structural accessibility and similarity of possible worldsJournal of Philosophical Logic 21 (2). 1992.
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35Moritz Schlick, kritische gesamtausgabe, herausgegeben Von Friedrich Stadler und Hans-jürgen WendelJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 38 (2): 397-401. 2007.
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41Neuraths enzyklopädismus: Entwurf eines radikalen EmpirizismusJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 22 (1). 1991.In this paper I want to show that a main theme of Neurath’s philosophical work was the formulation of a radically empiricist theory of science. His approach, dubbed "encyclopedism", can be characterized by the following five theses: scientific knowledge is (1) fallible, (2) pluralistic, (3) holistic, (4) can be systematized only locally, and (5) does not give us a faithful description of the real world. (4) is to be considered as the most original thesis of encyclopedism and is discussed in deta…Read more
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760Structure-preserving Representations, Constitution and the Relative A prioriSynthese 198 (Supplement 21): 1-24. 2021.The aim of this paper is to show that a comprehensive account of the role of representations in science should reconsider some neglected theses of the classical philosophy of science proposed in the first decades of the 20th century. More precisely, it is argued that the accounts of Helmholtz and Hertz may be taken as prototypes of representational accounts in which structure preservation plays an essential role. Following Reichenbach, structure-preserving representations provide a useful devic…Read more
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994The Vicissitudes of Mathematical Reason in the 20th Century (review)Metascience 21 (2): 295-300. 2011.The vicissitudes of mathematical reason in the 20th century Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-6 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9556-y Authors Thomas Mormann, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country UPV/EPU, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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574The concept of similarity has had a rather mixed reputation in philosophy and the sciences. On the one hand, philosophers such as Goodman and Quine emphasized the „logically repugnant“ and „insidious“ character of the concept of similarity that allegedly renders it inaccessible for a proper logical analysis. On the other hand, a philosopher such as Carnap assigned a central role to similarity in his constitutional theory. Moreover, the importance and perhaps even indispensibility of the concept …Read more
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1829Wissenschaftliche Philosophie im Exil: Cassirer und der Wiener Kreis nach 1933Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis 23. 2016.
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913Carnap's Aufbau in the Weimar ContextVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 18 115-136. 2016.Quine’s classical classic interpretation succinctly characterized characterizes Carnap’s Aufbau as an attempt “to account for the external world as a logical construct of sense-data....” Consequently, “Russell” was characterized as the most important influence on the Aufbau. Those times have passed. Formulating a comprehensive and balanced interpretation of the Aufbau has turned out to be a difficult task and one that must take into account several disjointed sources. My thesis is that the core …Read more
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527Ilkka Niiniluoto, Sami Pihlström (eds.), Reappraisals of Eino Kaila's Philosophy (review)Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 18. 2016.
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91We seek to elucidate the philosophical context in which the so-called revolution of rigor in inifinitesimal calculus and mathematical analysis took place. Some of the protagonists of the said revolution were Cauchy, Cantor, Dedekind, and Weierstrass. The dominant current of philosophy in Germany at that time was neo-Kantianism. Among its various currents, the Marburg school (Cohen, Natorp, Cassirer, and others) was the one most interested in matters scientific and mathematical. Our main thesis i…Read more
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985Wiener wissenschaftliche Weltanschauungen - zwischen Wissenschaft, Philosophie, Politik und "Leben"In Elisabeth Nemeth & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), Die Europäische Wissenschaftsphilosophie Und Das Wiener Erbe, Veröffentlichungen Des Instituts Wiener Kreis Band 18, 105 - 127, Springer. 2013.
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549Moritz Schlicks Vorlesungen über Nietzsche und Schopenhauer (review)Journal of General Philosophy of Science 46 (2). 2015.
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336Matthias Neuber: Die Grenzen des Revisionismus: Schlick, Cassirer und das "Raumproblem" (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 68 (1): 127-131. 2014.
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1337Topology as an Issue for History of Philosophy of ScienceIn Hanne Andersen, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Thomas Uebel & Gregory Wheeler (eds.), New Challenges to Philosophy of Science, Springer. pp. 423--434. 2013.Since antiquity well into the beginnings of the 20th century geometry was a central topic for philosophy. Since then, however, most philosophers of science, if they took notice of topology at all, considered it as an abstruse subdiscipline of mathematics lacking philosophical interest. Here it is argued that this neglect of topology by philosophy may be conceived of as the sign of a conceptual sea-change in philosophy of science that expelled geometry, and, more generally, mathematics, from the …Read more
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453La idealización en la matemáticaDiscusiones Filosóficas 13 (20). 2012.Abstract. El objetivo de este documento es elucidar el papel de las idealizaciones en el conocimiento matemático inspirado por algunas ideas del filósofo neo-kantiano Ernst Cassirer. Usualmente, en la filosofía de la ciencia contemporánea se da por hecho que el tema de la idealización se refiere únicamente a las idealizaciones en las ciencias empíricas, en particular en la física. Por el contrario, Cassirer afirmó que la idealización de las matemáticas, así como en las ciencias tiene la misma ba…Read more
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1211A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and the Vienna Circle after 1933Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 16. 2012.Ernst Cassirer, 2011, Symbolische Prägnanz, Ausdrucksphänomen und „Wiener Kreis“, Nachgelassene Manuskripte und Texte, vol. 4, ed. Christian Möckel, 478pp., Hamburg, Felix Meiner Verlag
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2488Zur mathematischen Wissenschaftsphilosophie des Marburger NeukantianismusIn Christian Damböck (ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen, Springer. 2018.
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449On the Vicissitudes of Idealism in Philosophy of Science: The Case of Cassirer's 'Critical Idealism'Lectiones Et Acroases Philosophicae (1). 2014.In Anglo-Saxon philosophy of science there is strong conviction that idealist philosophy of science on the the one hand and serious science and philosophy of science on the other do not go well together. In this paper I argue that this sweeping dismissal of the idealist tradition may have been too hasty. They may be some valuable insights for which it is striving. A promising case in question is provided by Ernst Cassirer’s Neo-Kantian „Critical Idealism“ that he put forward in the first decades…Read more
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855From Mathematics to Quantum Mechanics - On the Conceptual Unity of Cassirer’s Philosophy of ScienceIn Sebastian Luft & J. Tyler Friedman (eds.), The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment, De Gruyter. pp. 31-64. 2015.
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771Abstract. Let REL(O*E) be the relation algebra of binary relations defined on the Boolean algebra O*E of regular open regions of the Euclidean plane E. The aim of this paper is to prove that the canonical contact relation C of O*E generates a subalgebra REL(O*E, C) of REL(O*E) that has infinitely many elements. More precisely, REL(O*,C) contains an infinite family {SPPn, n ≥ 1} of relations generated by the relation SPP (Separable Proper Part). This relation can be used to define point-free conc…Read more
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622The aim of this paper is to show that every topological space gives rise to a wealth of topological models of the modal logic S4.1. The construction of these models is based on the fact that every space defines a Boolean closure algebra (to be called a McKinsey algebra) that neatly reflects the structure of the modal system S4.1. It is shown that the class of topological models based on McKinsey algebras contains a canonical model that can be used to prove a completeness theorem for S4.1. Furthe…Read more
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1547Heyting Mereology as a Framework for Spatial ReasoningAxiomathes 23 (1). 2013.In this paper it is shown that Heyting and Co-Heyting mereological systems provide a convenient conceptual framework for spatial reasoning, in which spatial concepts such as connectedness, interior parts, (exterior) contact, and boundary can be defined in a natural and intuitively appealing way. This fact refutes the wide-spread contention that mereology cannot deal with the more advanced aspects of spatial reasoning and therefore has to be enhanced by further non-mereological concepts to overc…Read more
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766Philipp Frank’s Austro-American Logical EmpiricismHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 7 (1). 2017.The aim of this paper is to discuss the “Austro-American” logical empiricism proposed by physicist and philosopher Philipp Frank, particularly his interpretation of Carnap’s Aufbau, which he considered the charter of logical empiricism as a scientific world conception. According to Frank, the Aufbau was to be read as an integration of the ideas of Mach and Poincaré, leading eventually to a pragmatism quite similar to that of the American pragmatist William James. Relying on this peculiar interpr…Read more
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853Infinitesimals as an issue of neo-Kantian philosophy of scienceHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (2): 236-280. 2013.We seek to elucidate the philosophical context in which one of the most important conceptual transformations of modern mathematics took place, namely the so-called revolution in rigor in infinitesimal calculus and mathematical analysis. Some of the protagonists of the said revolution were Cauchy, Cantor, Dedekind,and Weierstrass. The dominant current of philosophy in Germany at the time was neo-Kantianism. Among its various currents, the Marburg school (Cohen, Natorp, Cassirer, and others) was t…Read more
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 1995
Donostia-San Sebastián, PV, Spain
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