Propositions
Ontology and Logic
Published on 12. April 2023
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-19-764703-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the third volume in the Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, distinguished philosopher Robert Stalnaker here offers a defense of an ontology of propositions, and of some logical resources for representing them. He offers an austere formulation of a theory of propositions in a first-order extensional logic, but then uses the commitments of this theory to justify an enrichment to modal logic as an appropriate framework for regimented languages that are constructed to represent any of our scientific and philosophical commitments. His book adopts a self-consciously neo-Quinean methodology, and argues that the theory that is developed helps to motivate and clarify Quine's naturalistic metaphysical picture.
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His book adopts a self-consciously neo-Quinean methodology, and argues that the theory that is developed helps to motivate and clarify Quine's naturalistic metaphysical picture. * MathSciNet *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-764703-5 (9780197647035)
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Person
Robert Stalnaker received his PhD from Princeton in 1965, and taught over the next fifty years at Yale, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell and MIT. He is the author of four books: Inquiry (1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (2007), Mere Possibilities (2012), and Context (2015). He has also published three collections of papers, all with Oxford: Context and Content (1999), Ways a World Might Be (2003), and Knowledge and Conditionals (2019). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
Content
Introduction
Chapter I. The Quinean legacy
Chapter II. Propositions
Chapter III. Predicates and predication
Chapter IV. First-order modal logic, and a first-order theory of propositions
Chapter V. Properties and relations
Chapter VI. Possible worlds and possible individuals
References
Chapter I. The Quinean legacy
Chapter II. Propositions
Chapter III. Predicates and predication
Chapter IV. First-order modal logic, and a first-order theory of propositions
Chapter V. Properties and relations
Chapter VI. Possible worlds and possible individuals
References