Propositions: Ontology and Logic
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780197647035
- ISBN10 0197647030
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 202
- Sammlung The Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2023
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden mit Hardcover
Propositions: Ontology and Logic
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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 constructedto 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.