Bolzano’s Philosophy of Grounding: Translations and Studies – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192847973,019284797X,9780192666857, 0192666851

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• ISBN-10: 0192666851
• ISBN-13: 9780192666857
• Author: Stefan Roski, Benjamin Schnieder

One of the liveliest debates in contemporary philosophy concerns the notions of grounding and metaphysical explanation. Many consider these notions to be of prime importance for metaphysics and the philosophy of explanation, or even for philosophy in general, and lament that they had been neglected for far too long. Although the current debate about grounding is of recent origin, its central ideas have a long and rich history in Western philosophy, going back at least to the works of Plato and Aristotle. Bernard Bolzano’s theory of grounding, developed in the first half of the nineteenth century, is a peak in the history of these ideas. On Bolzano’s account, grounding lies at the heart of a broad conception of explanation encompassing both causal and non-causal cases.

Table contents:

Part I: Introduction
1. Preamble
2. A survey of Bolzano’s theory of grounding
3. On the contents of this volume
Part II: Bolzano’s writings on grounding (in English translations)
4. Early period: scientific method and the foundations of mathematics
5. Middle period: theology and metaphysics
6. Mature period: A theory of grounding
Part III: Research papers on Bolzano’s theory
7. Aristotle and Bolzano on grounding
8. Logic, logical norms, and normative grounding
9. Some remarks on Bolzano on ground
10. Grounding, simplicity, and repetition
11. Bolzano, the (appropriate) relevant logic and grounding rules for implication
12. The grounds of moral “truths”
13. Grounding in practice: Bolzano’s Purely Analytic Proof in the light of the Contributions
14. Bolzano, the parallelogram of forces, and scientific explanation
15. A fundamental being-Bolzano’s cosmological argument and its Leibnizian roots

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