Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language
This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the model theory of mathe...
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| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Alessandro Torza
- Part 1. Logical Constants
- Which Quantifiers are Logical? A Combined Semantical and Inferential Criterion; Solomon Feferman
- Implicit Definitions, Second-Order Quantifiers, and the Robustness of the Logical Operators; Arnold Koslow
- Quantifiers are Logical Constants, but Only Ambiguously; Sun-Joo Shin
- Part 2. Semantics of Natural Language
- Conjunctive, Disjunctive, Negative Objects and Generalized Quantification; Ken Akiba
- Quantifiers and Referential Use; Mario Gómez-Torrente
- Quantification and Logical Form; Andrea Iacona
- Quantification with Intentional and with Intensional Verbs; Frederike Moltmann
- Part III The Carnap-Quine Legacy
- Life on the Range: Quine’s Thesis and Semantic Indeterminacy; G. Aldo Antonelli
- Chalmers, Quantifier Variance and Mathematicians’ Freedom; Sharon Berry
- “There Is an ‘Is’ in There Is”: Meinongian Quantification and Existence; Francesco Berto
- Qualifying Quantifying-in; Bjørn Jespersen
- Carnap, Quine, Quantification and Ontology; Gregory Lavers
- Quantifier Variance, Intensionality and Metaphysical Merit; David Liebesman
- Part 4. Metaphysics and Ontology
- Making Quantified Truths True; Axel Arturo Barcelό Aspeitia
- Absolute Generality and Semantic Pessimism; J.P. Studd
- Necessarily Maybe. Quantifiers, Modality and Vagueness: Alessandro Torza
- What’s in a (Mental) Picture; Alberto Voltolini
- Part 5. Logical Systems
- Cross-World Identity, Temporal Quantifiers and the Question of Tensed Contents; Tero Tulenheimo
- What’s So Bad about Second-Order Logic?; Jason Turner
- ∀ and ω; Elia Zardini.
