Historical studies on abstraction and idealization
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Historical studies on abstraction and idealization
（Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities, v. 82 . Idealization ; 11）
Rodopi, 2004
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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.
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Preface
General Perspectives
Ignacio ANGELELLI: Adventures of Abstraction
Allan BAECK: What is Being qua Being
Francesco CONIGLIONE: Between Abstraction and Idealization: Scientific Practice and Philosophical Awareness
Case Studies
Desmond Paul HENRY: Anselm on Abstracts
Leen SPRUIT: Agent Intellect and Phantasms. On the Preliminaries of Peripatetic Abstraction
Robin D. ROLLINGER: Hermann Lotze on Abstraction and Platonic Ideas
Roberto POLI: W.E. Johnson's Determinable-Determinate Opposition and his Theory of Abstraction
Maria van der SCHAAR: The Red of a Rose. On the Significance of Stout's Category of Abstract Particulars
Claire ORTIZ HILL: Abstraction and Idealization in Edmund Husserl and Georg Cantor prior to 1895
Guillermo E. ROSADO HADDOCK: Idealization in Mathematics: Husserl and Beyond
Andrzej KLAWITER: Why Did Husserl not Become the Galileo of the Science of Consciousness?
Giovanni CAMARDI: Ideal Types and Scientific Theories
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