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

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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

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.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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)

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara