Robust Reality: An Essay in Formal Ontology

ISBN-13: 9783110325126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 197 str.

George Englebretsen

Opis

Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn't give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real world in all of this. The result is a robust account of reality. The inspiration for many of the ideas that constitute this overall theory comes from such sources as Aristotle, Leibniz, Ryle, and Sommers.

O autorze

George Englebretsen is a Professor Emeritus at Bishop s University in Québec, whose main areas of research have been in logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. He has authored many essays and books, including Something To Reckon With (1996), An Invitation to Formal Reasoning (with Fred Sommers, 2000), Bare Facts and Naked Truths (2006) and Philosophical Logic (with Charles Sayward, 2011).