Idealization XI : : historical studies on abstraction and idealization / / edited by Francesco Coniglione, Roberto Poli and Robin Rollinger.

• Superior document: Poznan studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities, Volume 82
• TeilnehmendeR: Coniglione, Francesco,; Poli, Roberto,; Rollinger, Robin,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 82.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 pages).

Discussions about abstraction are so important and so profound that this topic can hardly be neglected. It has inevitably cropped up again in various periods of philosophical enquiry. Despite these ancient roots and after the great debate that characterised the empirical and rationalistic tradition, interest in the problem has unfortunately been absent in large measure from the mainstream of mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. It seems that there is a gap between the epistemological theorization, in which it is difficult to find new insights on the problem of abstraction, and the historical studies concerning the development of philosophical thought. Such studies, however, present a more fertile ground for such insights. Here the reader will find presented for the first time a collection of papers about the topic, considered from an historical point of view together with an awareness of the need for building a bridge between historical research and theoretical speculation. Accordingly the volume consists of both general overviews which sketch the signifcance and the fortunes of abstraction in science, philosophy and logic (the first part) and historical case studies which focus on abstraction in particular thinkers (the second part). This volume is of interest for both general philosophers and historians of philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Francesco Coniglione , Roberto Poli and Robin D. Rollinger -- PREFACE / Francesco Coniglione , Roberto Poli and Robin D. Rollinger -- ADVENTURES OF ABSTRACTION / Ignacio Angelelli -- WHAT IS BEING QUA BEING? / Allan Bäck -- BETWEEN ABSTRACTION AND IDEALIZATION: SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE AND PHILOSOPHICAL AWARENESS / Francesco Coniglione -- ANSELM ON ABSTRACTS / Desmond Paul Henry -- AGENT INTELLECT AND PHANTASMS. ON THE PRELIMINARIES OF PERIPATETIC ABSTRACTION / Leen Spruit -- HERMANN LOTZE ON ABSTRACTION AND PLATONIC IDEAS / Robin D. Rollinger -- W. E. JOHNSON’S DETERMINABLE-DETERMINATE OPPOSITION AND HIS THEORY OF ABSTRACTION / Roberto Poli -- THE RED OF A ROSE. ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STOUT’S CATEGORY OF ABSTRACT PARTICULARS / Maria van der Schaar -- ABSTRACTION AND IDEALIZATION IN EDMUND HUSSERL AND GEORG CANTOR PRIOR TO 1895 / Claire Ortiz Hill -- IDEALIZATION IN MATHEMATICS: HUSSERL AND BEYOND / Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock -- WHY DID HUSSERL NOT BECOME THE GALILEO OF THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS? / Andrzej Klawiter -- IDEAL TYPES AND SCIENTIFIC THEORIES / Giovanni Camardi -- POZNAŃ STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES / Francesco Coniglione , Roberto Poli and Robin D. Rollinger.