The sequel is here
The new Masses of Formal Philosophy, eds. Vincent F. Hendricks and John Symons, is right around the corner from Automatic Press/VIP. As I mentioned earlier, Restall has promised us his answers to the editors' questions in this volume, and as you can see, quite a few others have joined him.
Even more interesting, at least in my opinion, is the sibling volume Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions. For St. Andrews people, there are some familiar faces: Crispin Wright, Graham Priest, and Stewart Shapiro are all contributing. So is Bob Hale, Jaakko Hintikka, Paul Beacerraf, Charles Chihara, Solomon Feferman, Harvey Friedman, William Tait, and a range of other seminal figures in philosophy of mathematics. Again the volume is edited by Vincent F. Hendricks, but this time together with Hannes Leitgeb, who I wrote about in connection with his excellent talk in Edinburgh.
A very inspiring talk by van Benthem at this year's ESSLLI comes to mind: It reminded me of how important it is for prominent researchers to provide the younger generations with the broad overview of their fields - a perspective which is, I take it, usually lost for PhD-students and young researchers. Reading the interviews from the first book, Formal Philosophy, I think it provided precisely the type of overview that is often omitted in the specialized literature.
Even more interesting, at least in my opinion, is the sibling volume Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions. For St. Andrews people, there are some familiar faces: Crispin Wright, Graham Priest, and Stewart Shapiro are all contributing. So is Bob Hale, Jaakko Hintikka, Paul Beacerraf, Charles Chihara, Solomon Feferman, Harvey Friedman, William Tait, and a range of other seminal figures in philosophy of mathematics. Again the volume is edited by Vincent F. Hendricks, but this time together with Hannes Leitgeb, who I wrote about in connection with his excellent talk in Edinburgh.
A very inspiring talk by van Benthem at this year's ESSLLI comes to mind: It reminded me of how important it is for prominent researchers to provide the younger generations with the broad overview of their fields - a perspective which is, I take it, usually lost for PhD-students and young researchers. Reading the interviews from the first book, Formal Philosophy, I think it provided precisely the type of overview that is often omitted in the specialized literature.
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The maths volume does look particularly interesting. I'm glad to see Alan Weir and Mic Detlefsen in there. But I'll be really interested to see John Bell's contribution - I met him for the first time earlier this year, and it's quite an experience.
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