Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers

ISBN-13: 9780199284719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 434 str.

Nathan U. Salmon

Opis

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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.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