Absolute Generality - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199276420 ISBN 13: 9780199276424

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 2006

Riassunto

Is it possible to quantify over absolutely all there is? Or must all of our quantifiers range over a less-than-all-inclusive domain? It has commonly been thought that the question of absolute generality is intimately connected with the set-theoretic antinomies. But the topic of absolute generality has enjoyed a surge of interest in recent years. It has become increasingly apparent that its ramifications extend well beyond the foundations of set theory. Connections include semantic indeterminacy, logical consequence, higher-order languages, and metaphysics.

Rayo and Uzquiano present for the first time a collection of essays on absolute generality. These newly commissioned articles ― written by an impressive array of international scholars ― draw the reader into the forefront of contemporary research on the subject. The volume represents a variety of approaches to the problem, with some of the contributions arguing for the possibility of all-inclusive quantification and some of them arguing against it. An introduction by the editors draws a helpful map of the philosophical terrain.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Agustín Rayo is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). Gabriel Uzquiano is at The Ohio State University.

Contenuti:

• Agustín Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano: Introduction
• 1: Kit Fine: Relatively Unrestricted Quantification
• 2: Michael Glanzberg: Context and Unrestricted Quantification
• 3: Geoffrey Hellman: Against 'Absolutely Everything'!
• 4: Shaughan Lavine: Something About Everything: Universal Quantification in the Universal Sense of Universal Quantification
• 5: Øystein Linnebo: Sets, Properties, and Unrestricted Quantification
• 6: Vann McGee: There's a Rule for Everything
• 7: Charles Parsons: The Problem of Absolute Universality
• 8: Agustín Rayo: Beyond Plurals
• 9: Stewart Shapiro and Crispin Wright: All Things Indefinitely Extensible
• 10: Gabriel Uzquiano: Unrestricted Unrestricted Quantification: The Cardinal Problem of Absolute Generality
• 11: Alan Weir: Is it too much to ask, to ask for everything?
• 12: Timothy Williamson: Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199276420
• ISBN 13: 9780199276424
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 408
• Redattore: Rayo Agustín, Uzquiano Gabriel