Nathan Salmon

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Philosophical Papers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780199281763
• ISBN-10: 0199281769
• Artikelnr.: 21758884

Autorenporträt

Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara

Inhaltsangabe

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)