Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers (v. 1): Philosophical Papers, Volume I - Brossura

Salmon, Nathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199284717 ISBN 13: 9780199284719

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2006

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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199284717
• ISBN 13: 9780199284719
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 438