Subject: Philosophy Book Title: Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning
Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning
Philosophical Papers, Volume I
Salmon, Nathan
, University of California, Santa Barbara
Print publication date: 2005
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928471-9
doi:10.1093/0199284717.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928471-9
doi:10.1093/0199284717.001.0001
Abstract:
This volume brings together Nathan Salmon’s 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 Gödel’s incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation.
Keywords: content, denoting, existence, identity, meaning, modality, necessity, number, reference, semantics
Keywords: content, denoting, existence, identity, meaning, modality, necessity, number, reference, semantics
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction to Volume I
1. Existence (1987)
2. Nonexistence (1998)
3. Mythical Objects (2002)
4. Modal Logic Kalish-and-Montague Style (1994u)
5. Impossible Worlds (1984)
6. An Empire of Thin Air (1988)
7. The Logic of What Might Have Been (1989)
8. The Fact that x = y (1987)
9. This Side of Paradox (1993)
10. Identity Facts (2002)
11. Personal Identity: What's the Problem?
(1995u)
12. Wholes, Parts, and Numbers (1997)
13. The Limits of Human Mathematics (2001)
14. On Content (1992)
15. On Designating (2005)
16. A Problem in the Frege–Church Theory of Sense and Denotation (1993)
17. The Very Possibility of Language (2001)
18. Tense and Intension (2003)
19. Pronouns as Variables (2005)
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0199284717.001.0001
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