Propositions

Ontology and Logic

Robert Stalnaker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-764703-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	07.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	RUTGERS LECTURES IN PHILOSOPHY SERIES
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 218 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-19-764703-0 / 0197647030
ISBN-13	978-0-19-764703-5 / 9780197647035
Zustand	Neuware