We are supposed to wage war against Terrorism - but exactly what we are fighting against in this war, there is nearly no consensus about. And, much worse, nearly nobody cares about this conceptual disaster - the main thing being, whether or not you are taking sides with the good guys.

This volume is an analytical attempt to end this disaster. What is Terrorism? Are terrorist acts to be defined exclusively on the basis of the characteristics of the respective actions? Or should we restrict such actions to acts performed by non-state organisations? And, most important, is...

Jeder wissenschaftlichen Theorie und jedem alltaglichen Weltbild liegen -ontologische Festlegungen- zugrunde, also Annahmen betreffend die Existenz bestimmter Gegenstande. Manchmal widersprechen implizite Existenzannahmen expliziten Uberzeugungen und sind in diesem Sinne unerwunscht. Unerwunschte ontologische Festlegungen werfen unter anderem die folgenden Fragen auf: Nach welchen Kriterien kann entschieden werden, worauf jemand ontologisch festgelegt ist? Gibt es so etwas wie ein -ontologisch neutrales- Sprechen? Gibt es verschiedene -Weisen des Seins-? Wie konnen unerwunschte...

The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or universal? Any reply will itself raise the question of how to treat discourse that appears to refer to things that cannot be met with in time and space: what difference is there between saying that someone is not sad and saying that something does not exist? If we can speak meaningfully about fictions,...

Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II period." Goodman has left his mark in many fields of philosophical investigation: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Metaphysics, the General Theory of Symbols, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Art, all have been challenged and enriched by the problems he has shown up, the projects he developed from them and the solutions he has suggested. In August 2006 a...

Diese Reihe prasentiert die Arbeiten von Autoren, fur die Philosophie ein kooperatives wissenschaftliches Unternehmen darstellt. In dieser Hinsicht wei sie sich dem methodologischen Ideal der analytischen Philosophie verpflichtet, steht aber auch historisch oder systematisch ausgerichteten Arbeiten aus anderen Gebieten der Philosophie offen.