Reference, Rationality, and Phenomenology

Having its seeds in the 2nd International Lauener Symposium held in honour of Dagfinn Føllesdal , the present collection contains a rich, kaleidoscopic ensemble of previously unpublished contributions by leading authors, representing diverse approaches to a variety of philosophical themes on which Føllesdal has had a longstanding, formative impact . Føllesdal 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 Føllesdal's 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 Føllesdal the philosopher as well as a spanning interview with him, which are both critically directing toward Føllesdal's subtly differentiated understanding of the dynamic philosophical horizon he shares in.

With contributions from Dagfinn Føllesdal, 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, Øystein Linnebo, Michael Frauchiger.

Auteur

Michael Frauchiger, Dr. phil., has been lecturing in the fields of Philosophy and Methodology of Science with the University of Applied Sciences of Zurich, the Open University as well as the University of Bern and has additionally been an Advanced Research Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since its establishment in 2003, he has been the Managing member of the board of trustees of the Lauener Foundation for Analytical Philosophy. His areas of research are Epistemology (incl. Methodology), Philosophy of Language and Logics, Ontology as well as questions at the intersection of Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Morality.