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The Philosophy of Georg
Henrik von Wright
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Born in Helsingfors (Helsinki) in 1916, Georg Henrik von Wright is the most renowned Scandinavian philosopher of our time, and an outstanding contributor to many fields of philosophy. He has made important advances in logical theory and extended the application of logic to new areas, making path-breaking discoveries in probability theory, induction, causation, and determinism.
Georg Henrik von Wright: Intellectual Autobiography
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
Index by Georg Henrik von Wright
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