8 articles in this issue
Xavier de Donato-Rodríguez
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Catherine Z. Elgin
The Structure of Appearance presents a phenomenalist system which constructs enduring visible objects out of qualia. Nevertheless Goodman does not espouse phenomenalism. Why not? In answering this question this paper explicates Goodman’s views about the ... see more
Marcus Rossberg,Daniel Cohnitz
It is often claimed that nominalistic programmes to reconstruct mathematics fail, since they willat some point involve the notion of logical consequence which is unavailable to the nominalist.In this paper we use an idea of Goodman and Quine to develop a ... see more
Karl-Georg Niebergall
From early work of N. Goodman to recent approaches by H. Field and D. Lewis, there havebeen attempts to combine 2nd order languages with calculi of individuals. This paper is a contribution,containing basic definitions and distinctions and some metatheore... see more
Marek Polanski
The aim of the present paper is to provide a model-theoretic explication of Goodman's conceptof extensional isomorphism. After some conceptual clarifications Goodman's concept of isomorphyturns out to be closely related to some variant of set-theoretic de... see more
In the present paper, I try to defend a coherent interpretation of Goodman’s relativism by responding to the main objections of the critics. I also discuss the significance of his pluralism by relating it to the notion of construction. This will show the ... see more
Luis Carlos Medina
The present article provides an analysis of the instants of a system that performs a Newtoniansupertask. For each instant it studied the possibility of the system having, from the instant inquestion, more than one possible course of evolution. This analys... see more
Carlos Ortiz de Landázuri