Michael Frauchiger (EDT) Reference, Rationality, and Phenomenology

Annotation

Having its seeds in the 2nd International Lauener Symposium held in honour of Dagfinn Fllesdal, the present collection contains a rich, kaleidoscopic ensemble of previously unpublished contributions by leading authors, representing diverse approaches to a variety of philosophical themes on which Fllesdal has had a longstanding, formative impact. Fllesdal himself contributes an orientating essay continuing to develop his pioneering theory of reference as well as in-depth commentaries on each of the other authors elaborated papers plus candid answers in the added interview. The volume assembles a wealth of original articles containing in part direct discussions of Fllesdals work and covering a broad range of topics like subjectivity, intersubjectivity, objectivity, rationality, logics and mathematics, choice theory, values, modalities, intentionality, individuation, perception, communication, meaning, reference, the slingshot, one- and two-sorted semantics, evidence, neuropsychology, space and time, science and society, methodology, fallibilism, the relative a priori, justification, holism, the life-world, reflective equilibrium, empathy, and ethics. Moreover the book includes an incisive memoir of Fllesdal the philosopher as well as a spanning interview with him, which are both critically directing toward Fllesdals subtly differentiated understanding of the dynamic philosophical horizon he shares in. With contributions from Dagfinn Fllesdal, Charles Parsons, Patrick Suppes, Jon Elster, John Perry, Michael Friedman, Dag Prawitz, Wilhelm K. Essler, David Woodruff Smith, Olav Gjelsvik, Graciela De Pierris, Nils Roll-Hansen, Christian Beyer, ystein Linnebo, Michael Frauchiger.