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Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters

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Editors:
  1. Harry A. Lewis

    1. Department of Philosophy, The University of Leeds, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 213)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Philosophical Autobiography

    • Peter Geach
    Pages 1-25
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  3. Selected Correspondence with Geach

    • Willard Van Orman Quine
    Pages 27-43
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  4. History of Philosophy

    • Peter Geach
    Pages 45-47
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  5. Abelard and Medieval Mereology

    • Desmond Paul Henry
    Pages 49-64
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  6. Form, Existence and Essence in Aquinas

    • Anthony Kenny
    Pages 65-75
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  7. On the Discontinuity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy

    • Boguslaw Wolniewicz
    Pages 77-81
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  8. Possibility, Plenitude and Determinism (With Some Comments on Ancient Authors)

    • Georg Henrik Von Wright
    Pages 83-97
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  9. Logic

    • Peter Geach
    Pages 99-104
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  10. Plural and Pleonetetic Quantification

    • J. E. J. Altham
    Pages 105-119
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  11. On a Queer Pattern of Argument

    • G. E. M. Anscombe
    Pages 121-135
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  12. Geach and The Methodology of the Logical Study of Natural Language

    • Jaakko Hintikka
    Pages 137-149
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  13. Natural Deduction and Ordinary Language Discourse Structure

    • James D. Mccawley
    Pages 151-160
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  14. Does Quantification Involve Identity?

    • Michael Dummett
    Pages 161-184
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  15. Conceptual Surroundings of Absolute Identity

    • Anselm W. Müller
    Pages 185-193
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  16. On Sameness and Selfhood

    • C. J. F. Williams
    Pages 195-212
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  17. Philosophy of Religion

    • Peter Geach
    Pages 213-214
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  18. Philosophical Confusion and Sin

    • Norman Malcolm
    Pages 215-227
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  19. On Improving Christianity

    • Hugo Meynell
    Pages 229-246
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  20. Replies

    • Peter Geach
    Pages 247-306
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About this book

The present volume owes its existence to a proposal of Dr Esa Saarinen. Our aim was to celebrate the work of a living philosopher by presenting it both from his own point of view, through the medium of a philosophical autobiography, and from that of his closest philo­ sophical colleagues and adversaries. We felt that a philosophical career lived through vigorous controversy was best reflected not by adulation but in the spirit of that career - by open debate. Contributors were not constrained in their choice of topic, but their contributions fell naturally into groups linked with some of Peter Geach's principal areas of interest, and we have so grouped them in the book. There is an interweaving of biographical and philosophical themes, not only in Peter Geach's philosophical autobiography, but also in the introductions he has contributed to each section. Professor W. V. O. Quine's contribution, which consists of extracts from his correspondence with Peter Geach, has been set apart as it forms a natural bridge between Peter Geach's autobiography and the contri­ butions that follow. Their correspondence reproduced here throws new light on many familiar themes from the writings of both philosophers: among them, the objects of belief and other attitudes, issues in set theory, the nature of causality, and evolution in epistemology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, The University of Leeds, USA

    Harry A. Lewis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters

  • Editors: Harry A. Lewis

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7885-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0823-2Published: 28 February 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4072-5Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7885-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 330

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Logic, Philosophy of Religion

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