Marcus Rossberg’s Publications

Books First complete English translation of Gottlob Frege’s Grundgesetze der Arithmetik [Basic Laws of Arithmetic]. With Philip A. Ebert, Roy T. Cook and Crispin Wright. Oxford University Press, in progress Nelson Goodman (with Daniel Cohnitz), Philosophy Now series, Chesham: Acumen & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006 Forthcoming Papers “Open-Endedness, Schemas and Ontological Commitment” (with Nikolaj Jang Pedersen), forthcoming in Noûs [penultimate version] “Logical Consequence for Nominalists” (with Daniel Cohnitz), in: Abstraction and Reduction, ed. X. de Donato, special issue of Theoria, forthcoming “Nelson Goodman” (with Daniel Cohnitz), in: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , Edward N. Zalta (ed.) (forthcoming) Published Papers “Cantor on Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic” (with Philip A. Ebert), History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2009), pp. 341-348 [abstract and online version] “ ‘Dear Ed’: Ed Zalta’s Version of Neo-Logicism – a friendly letter of complaint” (with Philip A. Ebert), in A. Hieke and H. Leitgeb (eds.): Reduction – Abstraction – Analysis. Frankfurt: Ontos, 2009 “Leonard, Goodman, and the Development of the Calculus of Individuals”, in G. Ernst et al. (eds.): From Logic to Art: Themes from Nelson Goodman. Frankfurt: Ontos, 2009, pp. 51-69 [preprint] “McGee on Open-ended Schemas” (with Nikolaj Jang Pedersen), in: Helen Bohse and Sven Walter (eds.): Selected Contributions to GAP.6: Sixth International Conference of the German Society for Analytical Philosophy, Berlin, 11–14 September 2006. Paderborn: Mentis, 2007, pp. 104-120 “What is the Purpose of Neo-Logicism?” (with Philip A. Ebert), in Travaux de logique 18 (2006): Proceedings of the conference Contemporary Perspectives of Logicism held in Neuchâtel in April 2005, ed. by Pierre Joray, pp. 33-61 “Die Vertreibung aus dem Platonischen Paradies” [“Platonist Paradise Lost”], in Erwägen – Wissen – Ethik 17 (2006), issue on Naturalism in Mathematics, pp. 387-389 “First-Order Logic, Second-Order Logic, and Completeness”, in: V. Hendricks et al. (eds.): First-Order Logic Revisited. Berlin: Logos, 2004, pp. 303-321 Selected Presentations “Destroying Artworks”, as part of the symposium on Art and Abstract Objects at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Denver, Colorado, October 21-24, 2009 [handout] “Inferentialism and Conservativeness”, Annual Meeting of the Alabama Philosophical Society, Orange Beach, Alabama, October 2-3, 2009 Comment on Gila Sher’s “Is Logic in the Mind or in the World”, APA Pacific Division, 83rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 8-12, 2009 “On Validity”, Foundations of Logical Consequence I: Proof-Theoretic vs Model-Theoretic Semantics, Arché workshop, St Andrews, January 12-13, 2009 “Pluralism about Logic Proper”, Logical Pluralism conference in Tartu, Estonia, August 27-31, 2008 “Criteria of Ontological Commitment and Second-Order Quantification”, 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria, August 10-16, 2008 “On the Logic of Quantifier Variance”, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association in Aberdeen, July 11-13, 2008 “Truth and Non-Conservativeness in Higher-Order Logics”, University of Bristol, May 28, 2008 “Logical Consequence for Nominalists”, Abstract Objects in Semantics and the Philosophy of Mathematics workshop, Paris, February 27-29, 2008 “On the Logic of Quantifier Variance”, University of Stirling, October 11, 2007 “Non-Conservativeness in Higher-Order Logic and the Structure of Henkin-Models”, 13th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (LMPS) in Beijing, August 9-15, 2007 “Inferentialism and Conservativeness”, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association in Bristol, July 6-8, 2007 “Inferentialism and Abstractionism”, Status belli: Neo-Fregeans and Their Critics, XI. Arché Abstraction Workshop, St Andrews, December 8-10, 2006 “Anti-Foundationalism and Nominalism in the Philosophy of Nelson Goodman” (with Daniel Cohnitz), Sixth International Conference of the German Association for Analytical Philosophy (GAP.6) in Berlin, Germany, September 11-14, 2006 “Open-Endedness and Full Schematic Generality” (with Nikolaj Jang Pedersen), Sixth International Conference of the German Association for Analytical Philosophy (GAP.6) in Berlin, Germany, September 11-14, 2006 “Goodman, Leonard, and the Rebirth of Mereology”, Nelson Goodman: From Logic to Art. A retrospective in honour of his 100th Birthday conference in München, August 4-7, 2006 “What Neo-Logicism Could Not Be” (with Philip A. Ebert), BSPS Conference, Southampton, July 6-7, 2006 “Three Stages of the Problem of Induction: Hume, Goodman, Kripke”, University of Bologna, Italy, May 17, 2006 “On the Purpose of Neo-Logicism” (with Philip A. Ebert), British Logic Colloquium, University of Bristol, September 1-3, 2005 “Anti-Foundationalism and Nominalism: Carnap and Goodman” (with Daniel Cohnitz), Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy (ECAP5), University of Lisbon, August 27-31, 2005 “To Be or Not To Be the Value of a Variable: The Limits of Quine’s Criterion of Ontological Commitment”, Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy (ECAP5), University of Lisbon, August 27-31, 2005 “Higher-Order Logic from the Deductivist Perspective and Intuitionism: Non-Conservativeness and Separability”, Logic and Language Colloquium, University of Stockholm, Sweden, June 8, 2005 “The Limits of Quine’s Criterion for Ontological Commitment”, Ockham Society, Oxford University, May 24, 2005 “Can Logic Fail?”, Philosophy Club, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 19, 2004 “Logical Consequence”, Auburn After Dinner Philosophical Society, Auburn, AL, May 17, 2004 “On Logical Consequence”, Fifth International Conference of the German Association for Analytical Philosophy (GAP.5) in Bielefeld, Germany, September 22-26, 2003 “First-Order Logic, Second-Order Logic, and Completeness”, 75 Years of First-Order Logic (FOL‘75) in Berlin, Germany, September 18-21, 2003 “Second-Order Logic as Logic”, 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (LMPS03) in Ovideo, Spain, August 7-13, 2003 Comments? 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