Wolfgang Schwarz

Biographic Data

ID3698173
NAMEWolfgang Schwarz
GIVEN NAMESWolfgang
FAMILY NAMESchwarz
SIGNATURESCHWARZ W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-9965-1115
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS69
TOTAL CITATIONS44
AUTHOR COUNT69
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1953
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Sleeping Beauty and the demands of non‐ideal rationality

    Open AccessWolfgang SchwarzARTICLENoûs2025

    If an agent can't live up to the demands of ideal rationality, fallback norms come into play that take into account the agent's limitations. A familiar human limitation is our tendency to lose information. How should we compensate for this tendency? The Seeping Beauty problem allows us to isolate this question, without the confounding influence of other human limitations. If the coin lands tails, Beauty can't preserve whatever information she has…

  • Discourse, Diversity, and Free Choice

    Wolfgang SchwarzARTICLEAustralasian Journal of Philosophy2021

    ‘You may have beer or wine’ suggests that you may have beer and you may have wine. Following Klinedinst, I argue that this ‘free choice’ effect is a special kind of scalar implicature, arising from the application of an unspecific predicate to a plurality (of worlds). I show that the implicature can be derived from general norms of cooperative communication, without postulating new grammatical rules or hidden lexical items. The derivation calls f…

  • Granularity Problems

    Jens Christian Bjerring, Wolfgang SchwarzARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2017Cited by: 6References: 19

    Possible-worlds accounts of mental or linguistic content are often criticized for being too coarse-grained. To make room for more fine-grained distinctions among contents, several authors have recently proposed extending the space of possible worlds by ‘impossible worlds’. We argue that this strategy comes with serious costs: we would effectively have to abandon most of the features that make the possible-worlds framework attractive. More general…

  • Lost memories and useless coins

    Open AccessWolfgang SchwarzARTICLESynthese2015Cited by: 2References: 26

  • Belief Update across Fission

    Wolfgang SchwarzARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2015Cited by: 4References: 42

    When an agent undergoes fission, how should the beliefs of the fission results relate to the pre-fission beliefs? This question is important for the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics, but it is of independent philosophical interest. Among other things, fission scenarios demonstrate that ‘self-locating’ information can affect the probability of uncentred propositions even if an agent has no essentially self-locating uncertainty. I presen…

  • Variations on a Montagovian theme

    Open AccessWolfgang SchwarzARTICLESynthese2013Cited by: 1References: 22

  • Contingent Identity

    Open AccessWolfgang SchwarzARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2013Cited by: 3References: 24

    It is widely held that if an object a is identical (or non-identical) to an object b, then it is necessary that a is identical (non-identical) to b. This view is supported an argument from Leibniz's Law and a popular conception of de re modality. On the other hand, there are good reasons to allow for contingent identity. Various alternative accounts of de re modality have been developed to achieve this kind of generality, and to explain what is w…

  • Kreativitätstechniken

    Hendrik Backerra, PP009N:Malorny PP009N:Malorny et al.BOOKKreativitätstechniken2007

  • Kant's Categories of Reality and Existence

    Wolfgang SchwarzARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1987

    Since its appearance, and up to the present, Kant's table of categories has met, by and large, with a take-it or leave-it attitude. A recent defense of Kant in this journal' trying to exonerate him from the charge that he adhered to something like degrees of being or existence argued very much in the spirit of Kant's general position but regrettably weakened its case by perpetuating a most awkward terminological ambiguity, with a proposed solutio…

  • A Lost Cause? The Continuing Ptolemaic Age in Philosophy

    Wolfgang SchwarzARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1980

  • Philosophie des Lebendigen Geistes in der Krise der Gegenwart

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Fritz-Joachim von RintelenARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1979

  • Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophie

    Wolfgang SchwarzREVIEWPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1979

  • Activity and Ground

    Wolfgang Schwarz, George J SeidelARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1978

  • Heidegger

    Wolfgang Schwarz, H-G Gadamer et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1978

  • Die Grundlagen der Sittlichkeit

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Hans ReinerARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1977

  • Logic

    Kirk Dallas Wilson, Immanuel Kant et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1976

  • Kant's Logic

    T E Wilkerson, Τ Ε Wilkerson et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1975

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Kant’s Logic, Translated by Robert Hartman and Wolfgang Schwarz. (Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill. 1974. Pp. cxvi + 164. Price paper £2.20. T. B. Wilkerson T. B. Wilkerson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 99, April 1975, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217633 Published: 01 April 1975

  • Transformation der Philosophie. Volume I

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Karl-Otto Apel et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1975

  • Handelnder Mensch und Objektiver Geist. Zur Theorie der Geistesund Sozialwissenschaften bei Wilhelm Dilthey

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Helmut JohachARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1975

  • The Kant-Eberhard Controversy

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Henry E AllisonARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1974Cited by: 8

  • Freiheit und Tod

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Arnold MetzgerARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1973

  • Subjekt

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Hans BrockardARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1972

  • Contemporary German Philosophy and its Background

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1971Cited by: 1

  • Kants Erfahrungsbegriff

    Wolfgang Schwarz, Helmut HolzheyARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1971Cited by: 1

  • "Reflections on Gough's "Reflections

    Wolfgang SchwarzARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1971