Metaphysics, mathematics, and meaning
By: Nathan Sslmon.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Metaphysics.; Mathematics -- Philosophy.; Meaning (Philosophy)
Description: "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 "Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Ontology; title: Existence (1987); title: Nonexistence (1998); title: Mythical objects (2002); title: Part II. Necessity; title: modal logic Kalish-and-Montague style (1994u); title: Impossible Worlds (1984); title: An empire of thin air (1988); title: The logic of what might have been (1989); title: Part III. Identity; title: The fact that X=Y (1987); title: This side of paradox (1993); title: Identity facts (2002); title: Personal identity : what's the problem? (1995u); title: Part IV. Philosophy of mathematics; title: Wholes, parts, and numbers (1997); title: The limits of human mathematics (2001); title: Part V. Theory of meaning and reference; title: On content (1992); title: On designating (1997u); title: A problem in the Frege-church theory of sense and denotation (1993); title: The very possibility of language (2001); title: Tense and intension (2003); title: Pronouns as variables (2005).