Propositions: Ontology and Logic

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Robert Stalnaker (Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Propositions

Ontology and Logic

Robert Stalnaker (Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Oxford University Press Inc
11 May 2023

Philosophy of language; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy of mathematics

Series: RUTGERS LECTURES IN PHILOSOPHY SERIES

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 constructed to 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.

By: Robert Stalnaker (Professor of Philosophy emeritus Professor of Philosophy emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 148mm, Width: 218mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 358g
ISBN: 9780197647035
ISBN 10: 0197647030
Series: RUTGERS LECTURES IN PHILOSOPHY SERIES
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 11 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter I. The Quinean legacy Chapter II. Propositions Chapter III. Predicates and predication Chapter IV. First-order modal logic, and a first-order theory of propositions Chapter V. Properties and relations Chapter VI. Possible worlds and possible individuals References

Robert Stalnaker received his PhD from Princeton in 1965, and taught over the next fifty years at Yale, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell and MIT. He is the author of four books: Inquiry (1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (2007), Mere Possibilities (2012), and Context (2015). He has also published three collections of papers, all with Oxford: Context and Content (1999), Ways a World Might Be (2003), and Knowledge and Conditionals (2019). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

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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. * MathSciNet *