Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers, Volume I - Rilegato

Salmon, Nathan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0199281769 ISBN 13: 9780199281763

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 2005

Riassunto

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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Nathan Salmon is at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Contenuti:

• 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)

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0199281769
• ISBN 13: 9780199281763
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 436