
Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality
Themes from Kit Fine
Mircea Dumitru(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 29. October 2020
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-0-19-965262-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first edited collection of papers on the work of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers. Over the last five decades, Kit Fine has made thought-provoking and innovative contributions to several areas of systematic philosophy, including philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as to a number of topics in philosophical logic. These contributions have helped reshape the agendas of those fields and have given fresh impetus to a number of perennial debates. Fine's work is distinguished by its technical sophistication, philosophical breadth, and independence from current orthodoxy. A blend of sound common-sense combined with a virtuosity in argumentation and constructive thinking is part and parcel of Kit Fine's lasting contributions to current trends in analytic philosophy.
Researchers and students in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and cognitive science will benefit alike from these critical contributions to Fine's novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality, and will come away with a better understanding of the issues within contemporary analytic philosophy with which they deal.
Researchers and students in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and cognitive science will benefit alike from these critical contributions to Fine's novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality, and will come away with a better understanding of the issues within contemporary analytic philosophy with which they deal.
Reviews / Votes
A signifcant contribution to the existing literature ... I strongly recommend this book and believe that its place is in the library of each and every philosophy department. * Gaetan Bovey, Metascience * I strongly recommend this book and believe that its place is in the library of each and every philosophy department. . . . Fine's replies consist of a fertile ground to shape the horizon of philosophical investigations in the coming years. * Gaetan Bovey, Metascience * Researchers and students in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and cognitive science will benefit alike from these critical contributions to Fine's novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality, and will come away with a better understanding of the issues within contemporary analytic philosophy with which they deal. * zbMATH Open *More details
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
957 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-965262-4 (9780199652624)
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Person
Mircea Dumitru is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. He is also Rector of the University of Bucharest and Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University. He has previously held the position of President of the European Society of Analytic Philosophy and is currently the President of the International Institute of Philosophy. His research focuses on philosophical logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of language.
Content
Mircea Dumitru: Kit Fine: A Philosopher's Philosopher
I Metaphysics
1: Fred Kroon and Jonathan McKeown-Green: Ontology: What's the (Real) Question?
2: Philip Percival: Beyond Reality?
3: Joseph Almog: One Absolutely Infinite Universe to Rule Them All: Reverse Reflection, Reverse Metaphysics
4: Alasdair Urquhart: Fine on Arbitrary Objects
5: Gabriel Sandu: Indefinites, Skolem Functions, and Arbitrary Objects
6: Kathrin Koslicki: Essence and Identity
7: Kit Fine: Indeterminate Identity, Personal Identity and Fission
8: Graeme Forbes: Fine's New Semantics of Vagueness
II Modality
9: Steven T. Kuhn: Necessary, Transcendental, and Universal Truth
10: Gideon Rosen: What is Normative Necessity?
11: Bob Hale: The problem of de re modality
12: Penelope Mackie: Can Metaphysical Modality be Based on Essence?
13: Fabrice Correia: More on the Reduction of Necessity to Essence
14: Jessica Wilson: Essence and Dependence
15: Scott Shalkowski: Essence and Nominalism
16: Robert Goldblatt: Fine's Theorem on First-Order Complete Modal Logics
III Language
17: Gary Ostertag: Fine on Frege's Puzzle
18: Paolo Bonardi: Coordination, Understanding, and Semantic Requirement
19: Friederike Moltmann: Variable Objects and Truth-Making
IV Kit Fine's Responses
Publications of Kit Fine
I Metaphysics
1: Fred Kroon and Jonathan McKeown-Green: Ontology: What's the (Real) Question?
2: Philip Percival: Beyond Reality?
3: Joseph Almog: One Absolutely Infinite Universe to Rule Them All: Reverse Reflection, Reverse Metaphysics
4: Alasdair Urquhart: Fine on Arbitrary Objects
5: Gabriel Sandu: Indefinites, Skolem Functions, and Arbitrary Objects
6: Kathrin Koslicki: Essence and Identity
7: Kit Fine: Indeterminate Identity, Personal Identity and Fission
8: Graeme Forbes: Fine's New Semantics of Vagueness
II Modality
9: Steven T. Kuhn: Necessary, Transcendental, and Universal Truth
10: Gideon Rosen: What is Normative Necessity?
11: Bob Hale: The problem of de re modality
12: Penelope Mackie: Can Metaphysical Modality be Based on Essence?
13: Fabrice Correia: More on the Reduction of Necessity to Essence
14: Jessica Wilson: Essence and Dependence
15: Scott Shalkowski: Essence and Nominalism
16: Robert Goldblatt: Fine's Theorem on First-Order Complete Modal Logics
III Language
17: Gary Ostertag: Fine on Frege's Puzzle
18: Paolo Bonardi: Coordination, Understanding, and Semantic Requirement
19: Friederike Moltmann: Variable Objects and Truth-Making
IV Kit Fine's Responses
Publications of Kit Fine