Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Philosophical Papers
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928471-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Selections from more than twenty years' work by a leading philosopher
- Salmon's essays have been influential across a wide range of topics
- Includes unpublished material and a brand-new introduction

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic; strict identity, including personal identity; numbers and numerical quantifiers; the philosophical significance of Gödel's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation. Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

Contents
- Introduction
- I. Ontology
- 1 Existence (1987)
- 2 Nonexistence (1998)
- 3 Mythical Objects (2002)
- II. Necessity
- 4 Modal Logic Kalish-and-Montague Style (1994)
- 5 Impossible Worlds (1984)
- 6 An Empire of Thin Air (1988)
- 7 The Logic of What Might Have Been (1989)
- III. Identity
- 8 The fact that x=y (1987)
- 9 This Side of Paradox (1993)
- 10 Identity Facts (2003)
- 11 Personal Identity: What's the Problem? (1995)
- IV. Philosophy of Mathematics
- 12 Wholes, Parts, and Numbers (1997)
- 13 The Limits of Human Mathematics (2001)
- V. Theory of Meaning and Reference
- 14 On Content (1992)
- 15 On Designating (1997)
- 16 A Problem in the Frege-Church Theory of Sense and Denotation (1993)
- 17 The Very Possibility of Language (2001)
- 18 Tense and Intension (2003)
- 19 Pronouns as Variables (2005)

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of philosophy, particularly those working on metaphysics, mathematics, and language, logicians, mathematicians, and linguists interested in philosophical questions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salmon, Nathan U.

Salmon, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara