Masses of Formal Philosophy is an outgrowth of Formal Philosophy. That book gathered the responses of some of the most prominent formal philosophers to five relatively open and broad questions initiating a discussion of metaphilosophical themes and problems surrounding the use of formal methods in philosophy. Including contributions from a wide range of philosophers, Masses of Formal Philosophy contains important new responses to the original five questions.
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An interesting collection, and the website has excerpts of interviews with many well-known philosophers and logicians. The autobiographical remarks by Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon) are especially entertaining, but also check out the excerpts from interviews with Dagfinn Føllesdal Stanford/Oslo) discussing the relationship between philosophy and other disciplines; Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz) reflecting on, as it were, the political economy of the discipline of philosophy over the last 50 years; and Patrick Suppes (Stanford) and Timothy Williamson (Oxford) on "open problems" in philosophy. -- Leiter Reports, November 11, 2005
Hendricks and Symons struck upon an ingenious method for getting giants in the field to talk freely about why formal philosophy is important, and how it should be done. -- Philosophy of Science, 2007
Hendricks and Symons struck upon an ingenious method for getting giants in the field to talk freely about why formal philosophy is important, and how it should be done. -- Philosophy of Science, 2007
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Formal Philosophy, in its sprawling and sometimes endearing way, captures the multiplicity of origin, aim and justification of the use of formal methods in philosophy. Whether philosophers come to formal methods reluctantly, forced to do so by the need for precision or by the nature of the problems studied, or with joy, sensing that abstract structures provide the key to understanding the world about us, they agree about the intellectual power afforded by such methods, and the pitfalls that surround them. Anyone interested in the methods of philosophy should read this book.
-- John Cantwell, review in Theoria, 2007
-- John Cantwell, review in Theoria, 2007
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