Overview
- Celebrates the contributions of Alan Weir, a significant figure in contemporary Scottish philosophy
- Includes work across a wide variety of topics in analytic philosophy, reflecting Alan Weir’s research interests
- Contains contributions by well-known researchers such as Timothy Williamson, Stewart Shapiro, and Alex Miller
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 484)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book celebrates and explores some philosophical issues raised by the work of Alan Weir, who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Glasgow, having previously held positions at the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Queen’s, Belfast. In a number of areas, Weir has elaborated strikingly original views which involve a radical departure from the mainstream. These include formalism in the philosophy of mathematics, and as well as naïve set theory, with a universal set, and a naïve theory of truth. In contrast to other contemporary defenders of the latter two theories, Weir rejects dialetheism and accepts classical rules for the logical connectives. He avoids contradictions by restricting certain structural inference rules, specifically some generalized versions of transitivity. In addition, Weir has developed radical versions of naturalism and physicalism (partly informed by his work on Quine) and perceptual realism. This collection includes contributions by a distinguished group of philosophers on Weir’s philosophy, as well as a memoir and a new essay on the philosophy of mathematics by Weir himself.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adam Rieger is also a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Glasgow. His main interests are in logic, the philosophy of mathematics and social choice theory, in particular paradoxes, set theory and non-standard voting methods.
Stephan Leuenberger is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His main research interests are in metaphysics, and in particular the application of formal methods to problems in modality, totality and metaphysical relations such as grounding.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Themes from Weir: A Celebration of the Philosophy of Alan Weir
Editors: Adam Rieger, Stephan Leuenberger
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54557-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54556-6Published: 31 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54559-7Due: 01 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54557-3Published: 30 May 2024
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 378
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Mathematical Logic and Foundations