The Philosophy of Georg Henrik von Wright, Volume 19

by Paul Arthur Schilpp, Lewis Edwin Hahn, Georg Henrik von Wright

Georg Henrik von Wright, born in Helsinki in 1916, is the most renowned Scandinavian philosopher of our time, and an outstanding contributor to many fields of philosophy. He has made important contributions to logical theory and extended the application of logic to new areas, making path-breaking discoveries in probability theory, induction, causation and determinism, human action, and ethics. This work contains von Wright's intellectual autobiography, 32 major criticisms of his ideas, and von Wright's replies to each of these papers, followed by a complete bibliography of his works.


Table of Contents
Georg Henrik von Wright: Intellectual Autobiography

Georg Henrik von Wright

(Replies follow essays)

Charles Hartshorne: Von Wright and Hume's Axiom
Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.: Von Wright on the Logic of Conditions and Inductive Logic
Stefan Nowak: Von Wright on Probability and Randomness
Risto Hilpinen: Von Wright on Confirmation Theory
William H. Baumer: Von Wright on the Paradoxes of Confirmation
Brian McGuinness: Von Wright on Wittgenstein
David Braybrooke: The Conditions on Which Rules Exist
Herbert W. Schneider: Teleological Prescriptions and Descriptions
Thomas Schwartz: Von Wright's Theory of Human Welfare: A Critique
Kurt Baier: Preference and the Good of Man
Philippa Foot: Von Wright on Virtue
William K. Frankena: Von Wright on the Nature of Morality
Frederick Stoutland: Von Wright's Theory of Action
Alan Donagan: Von Wright on Causation, Intention, and Action
Norman Malcolm: Intention and Behavior
G.E.M. Anscombe: Von Wright on Practical Inference
Max Black: Some Remarks About "Practical Reasoning"
Dag Prawitz: Von Wright on the Concept of Cause
Mihailo Markovic: Von Wright on Explanation Versus Understanding: The Relation of the Sciences of Nature and the Sciences of Man
W.H. Dray: Von Wright on Explanation in History
Knut Erik Tranoy: Von Wright's Humanism: His Critique of Culture and His Philosophy of Life
Jaakko Hintikka: Von Wright on Logical Truth and Distributive Normal Forms
Dagfinn Follesdal: Von Wright's Modal Logic
P.T. Geach: On Modal Syllogisms
Alan Ross Anderson: Von Wright on Entailment
Krister Segerberg: Von Wright's Tense Logic
Carlos E. Alchourron and Eugenio Bulygin: Von Wright on Deontic Logic and the Philosophy of Law
Bengt Hansson: Von Wright on the Logic of Preference
J.L. Mackie: Von Wright on Conditionals and Natural Necessity

Georg Henrik von Wright: A Reply to My Critics

Bibliography of the Writings of Georg Henrik von Wright

960 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990