Abstraction création, 1931-1936

According to Frege and many of his followers, there is no “metaphysical distance” between the two sides of an acceptable abstraction principle. How should this attractive idea be u...

Any abstractionist approach to thin objects faces the threat of paradox, as illustrated by Frege’s inconsistent Basic Law V. The neo-Fregeans Hale and Wright respond by severely re...

This chapter chronicles the formation and first season of the dance company Ballet Caravan, revealing the troupe’s close ties to the American Ballet and School of American Ballet. ...

Die Ausstellung widmet sich dem progressiven Künstler Paul Gangolf, der in europäischen Metropolen wirkte und 1936 im KL Esterwegen ermordet wurde. Paul Gangolf, der eige...

How was the world created? Where did we come from? Why are we here? Since the beginning of time, cultures have devised unique, often complex creation stories to explain the mysteri...

This chapter considers what form a neo-Fregean account of ordinal numbers might take. It begins by discussing how the natural abstraction principle for ordinals yields a contradict...