Intro -- I.Reduction -- A PROOF OF NOMINALISM:AN EXERCISE IN SUCCESSFUL REDUCTION IN LOGIC JAAKKO HINTIKKA -- PRESERVATION OF EMPIRICAL SUCCESS AND INTERTHEORETICAL CORRESPONDENCE: JUSTIFYING REALISM WITHOUT THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT GERHARD SCHURZ -- EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY AND RAMSIFICATION, II JEFFREY KETLAND -- ELIMINATING MODALITY FROM THE DETERMINISM DEBATE?MODELS VS. EQUATIONS OF PHYSICAL THEORIES THOMAS MÜLLER -- DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS:NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL? CHARLOTTE WERNDL -- THE "MULTIREALIZATION" OF MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY HOLGER LYRE -- PESSIMISTIC META-INDUCTION AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF SCIENCE1 LUDWIG FAHRBACH -- WEAK PHYSICALISM AND SPECIAL SCIENCE ONTOLOGY JAMES LADYMAN -- ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE?ALEXANDER BIRD -- ONTIC GENERATION: GETTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BASICS PETER SIMONS -- WHAT REDUCTIONISTS BELIEVE IN Christian Kanzian -- SUPERVENIENCE AND MORAL REALISM ALISON HILLS -- ALTERNATIVE REDUCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC DEONTIC LOGICS ALBERT J.J. ANGLBERGER -- II.Abstraction -- THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ABSTRACTION* CRISPIN WRIGHT -- HOW ABSTRACTION WORKS LEON HORSTEN and HANNES LEITGEB -- THIN OBJECTS ØYSTEIN LINNEBO -- RUSSELL'S MANY POINTS THOMAS MORMANN -- FROM DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS TO SETS OF ORDERED PAIRS1 BERNARD LINSKY -- DIAGONALIZATION, THE LIAR PARADOX, AND THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE FORMAL SYSTEM PRESENTED IN THE APPENDIX TO FREGE'S GRUNDGESETZE: VOLUME II ROY T COOK -- A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION FOR NEO-FREGEANISM* MICHAEL GABBAY -- ED ZALTA'S VERSION OF NEO-LOGICISM -A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT Philip A. Ebert -- REPLY TO P. EBERT AND M. ROSSBERG'S FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT EDWARD N. ZALTA -- III.Analysis.

ON THE BENEFITS OF AREDUCTION OF MODAL PREDICATES TO MODAL OPERATORS VOLKER HALBACH -- CALCULI OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOME EXTENSIONS: AN OVERVIEW* KARL-GEORG NIEBERGALL -- DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND ELIMINATION NORBERT GRATZL -- FROM LANGUAGE GAMES TO SOCIAL SOFTWARE ROHIT PARIKH -- ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GAMES IN EXTENSIVE FORM AND GAMES IN STRATEGIC FORM SIMON M. HUTTEGGER -- TWO ACCOUNTS OF SIMILARITY COMPARED LIEVEN DECOCK and IGOR DOUVEN -- CONTEXTUALISM, RELATIVISM, AND FACTIVITY.ANALYZING 'KNOWLEDGE' AFTER THE NEW LINGUISTIC TURN IN EPISTEMOLOGY ELKE BRENDEL.

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