Propositions

Ontology and Logic
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-764703-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 212 mm, Gewicht: 362 g

Reihe: RUTGERS LECTURES IN PHILOSOPHY SERIES

In the third volume in the Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, distinguished philosopher Robert Stalnaker here offers a defense of an ontology of propositions, and of some logical resources for representing them. He offers an austere formulation of a theory of propositions in a first-order extensional logic, but then uses the commitments of this theory to justify an enrichment to modal logic as an appropriate framework for regimented languages that are constructed to represent any of our scientific and philosophical commitments. His book adopts a self-consciously neo-Quinean methodology, and argues that the theory that is developed helps to motivate and clarify Quine's naturalistic metaphysical picture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stalnaker, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Chapter I. The Quinean legacy

- Chapter II. Propositions

- Chapter III. Predicates and predication

- Chapter IV. First-order modal logic, and a first-order theory of propositions

- Chapter V. Properties and relations

- Chapter VI. Possible worlds and possible individuals

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Stalnaker received his PhD from Princeton in 1965, and taught over the next fifty years at Yale, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell and MIT. He is the author of four books: Inquiry (1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (2007), Mere Possibilities (2012), and Context (2015). He has also published three collections of papers, all with Oxford: Context and Content (1999), Ways a World Might Be (2003), and Knowledge and Conditionals (2019). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.