The Structure of Appearance
With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appear ance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most in fluential and important works in the philosophy of our times. Professor Geoffrey Hellman's introduction gives a susta
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY MONOGRAPHS ON EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND OF KNOWLEDGE, AND ON THE MATHEMA TICAL METHODS OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Managing Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA,Academy of Finland and Stanford University
Editors: ROBERT S. COHEN,Boston University DONALD DAVIDSON, University of Chicago GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, University of Leyden WESLEY C. SALMON, University of Arizona
VOLUME 107
BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE EDITED BY ROBERT S. COHEN AND MARX W. WARTOFSKY
VOLUME LIII
NELSON GOODMAN
THE STRUCTURE OF APPEARANCE Third Edition with an Introduction by
GEOFFREY HELLMAN
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT-HOLLAND / BOSTON-U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Goodman, Nelson. The structure of appearance. (Boston studies in the philosophy of science; v. 53) (Synthese Library; v. 107) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Phenomenology. 2. Structuralism. 3. System theory. 4. Science-Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series. 77-24191 Q174.B67 vol. 53 [B829.5) SOls [142'.7)
ISBN-13: 978-90-277-0774-1 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-1184-6
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-1184-6
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To my father HENRY L. GOODMAN 1874-1941
EDITORIAL PREFACE
With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appearance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most influential and important works in the philosophy of our times. Professor Geoffrey Hellman's introduction gives a sustained analysis and appreciation of the major themes and the thrust of the book, as well as an account of the ways in which many of Goodman's problems and projects have been picked up and developed by others. Hellman also suggests how The Structure of Appearance introduces issues which Goodman later continues in his essays and in the Languages of Art. There remains the task of understanding Goodman's project as a whole; to see the deep continuities of his thought, as it ranges from logic to epistemology, to science and art; to see it therefore as a complex yet coherent theory of human cognition and practice. What we can only hope to suggest, in this note, is the b.road Significance of Goodman's apparently technical work for philo
