Bolzano's Philosophy of Grounding: Translations and Studies

462 Pages·2022·2.445 MB·English

by  Stefan Roski (editor), Benjamin Schnieder (editor)

Bolzano’s Philosophy of Grounding

Bolzano’s Philosophy of
Grounding
Translations and Studies
Edited by
STEFAN ROSKI
and
BENJAMIN SCHNIEDER
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Acknowledgements
The idea for this book was born more than six years ago. The project took a long
time, and there were many detours. More than once we were in doubt this would
ever be finished. We would like to thank all those involved for staying on board
for this rather long time.
More specifically, we would like to thank:
■ our authors for contributing their research papers;
■ Peter Momtchiloff for giving this volume a home at OUP;
■ Rolf George, Paul Rusnock, and Steve Russ, for their permission to work
with their translations of Bolzano’s texts;
■ several people for their helpful comments on our translations, in particular
Ali Behboud, Scott Dixon, Martin Glazier, Matt Moss, Steve Russ, and
Richard Woodward;
■ the members of Schnieder’s Research Colloquium who provided comments
on our survey paper;
■ several student assistants for their help with formatting and proofreading:
Florian Fuchs, Nina Scheller, Jana Elena Koch, Markus Rinke, Singa Behrens,
Nathan Buss, Lilith Borchert, Hannah Wilk, and Sijia Xie;
■ and last but not least, Bernard Bolzano for his wonderful works and his
dedication to the idea of grounding.
Stefan Roski would like to thank Stephan Krämer and Robert Schwartzkopff
for mental support. We would furthermore like to thank the BWFG Hamburg for
their financial support of the research project Welt der Gründe; the SNF for
their  support of the project Grounding: Metaphysics, Science, and Logic
(CRSII1–147685/1); the DFG for their support of the project Relevance (KR
4516/2–1) and the project The Structure of Fundamentality (SCHN 1137/5–1);
and finally the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for their support of the project ‘Der Leibniz
Böhmens’—die Leibniz’schen Elemente in Bernard Bolzanos philosophischem System.

List of Tables and Figures
Tables
2.1 Bolzano’s ontology. 16
6.1 The architecture of the WL. 109
11.1 Summary of the analogies and differences between the notion of exact
deducibility, the logic CR, and the logic R. 335
Figures
11.1 Classical natural deduction calculus. 328
11.2 Example 1. 329
11.3 Example 2. 329
11.4 CR natural deduction calculus. 332
15.1 Bolzano’s cosmological argument. 426

List of Contributors
Kit Fine, New York University.
Marc Lange, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Marko Malink, New York University.
Edgar Morscher, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.
Kevin Mulligan, University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano; and University of Geneva.
Francesca Poggiolesi, IHPST- CNRS, Paris.
Stefan Roski, University of Hamburg.
Paul Rusnock, University of Ottawa.
Benjamin Schnieder, University of Vienna.
Mark Textor, King’s College London.