In Search of a New Humanism: The Philosophy of Georg Henrik von Wright (Synthese Library, 282)

This collection of essays presents a systematic and up-to-date survey of the main aspects of Georg Henrik von Wright's philosophy, tracing the general humanistic __leitmotiv__ to be found in his vast, varied output. The analysis covers the developments in Von Wright's thought up to the end of the 1990s. The essays are arranged thematically to focus on the chief areas of Von Wright's interests: practical rationality; human action and determinism; philosophical logic and theories of norms; research in the analytical tradition; and Wittgenstein studies. __Readership:__ Scholars and students of moral philosophy, logic, psychology, sociology, cognitive science and the history of contemporary philosophy. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Von Wright and “Dante’s Dream” Stages in a Philosophical Pilgrim’s Progress....Pages 1-34 Wittgenstein and Tradition....Pages 35-46 Wittgenstein in Relation to Our Times....Pages 47-53 What is Analytical Philosophy?....Pages 55-63 “In the Beginning was the Deed” the Private Language Argument....Pages 65-68 Naturalism, World and Truth....Pages 69-78 What Wittgenstein Wrote....Pages 79-91 Von Wright on on Certainty ....Pages 93-96 Morphology in Wittgenstein....Pages 97-102 The Logical Connection Argument Again....Pages 103-112 Actions, Causes, and Supervenience....Pages 113-118 Justice, Cooperation, and the “Golden Rule”....Pages 119-122 Von Wright on the Mind-Body Problem....Pages 123-130 The Conflict between the Static and the Dynamic Theory of Time in Its Relation to von Wright’s Work and to Human Freedom....Pages 131-138 W. James’ Defence of Free Will: A Step Toward a Paradigm Shift....Pages 139-146 Is Determinism Impossible?....Pages 147-155 The Significance of Philosophical Logic....Pages 157-161 A Remark about the Principle “Ought Entails Can”: Von Wright and Kant....Pages 163-170 The Decidability of Syllogism....Pages 171-174 Dynamic Ideas in Quantum Logic....Pages 175-182 True or False Statements in Normative Discourse....Pages 183-191 “Norm Proposition” a Tentative Defense of a Sceptical View....Pages 193-204 Three Levels of Deontics....Pages 205-214 Sollen between Semantics and Pragmatics....Pages 215-220 Back Matter....Pages 221-250