{"product_id":"on-what-there-is-for-stephan-kramer-9783465038689","title":"On What There Is for Things to Be: Ontological Commitment and Second-Order Quantification","description":"If Art is smart and Art is rich, then someone is both smart and rich - namely, Art. And if Art is smart and Bart is smart, then Art is something that Bart is, too - namely, smart. The first claim involves first-order quantification, a generalization concerning what kinds of things there are. The second involves second-order quantification, a generalization concerning what there is for things to be. Or so it appears. Following W.V.O. Quine, many philosophers have endorsed a thesis of Ontological Collapse about second-order quantification. They maintain that ultimately, second-order quantification reduces to first-order quantification over sets or properties, and therefore also carries the latter's distinctive ontological commitments.In this revised version of his doctoral dissertation, awarded the Wolfgang-Stegmuller-Prize in 2012, Stephan Kramer examines the major arguments for Ontological Collapse in detail and finds all of them wanting. Quantifications, he argues, fall into at least two irreducible kinds: those on what things there are, and those on what there is for things to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephan Kramer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3465038681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783465038689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verlag Vittorio Klostermann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Stephan Kramer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447567921407,"sku":"9783465038689","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1a2a005d-2bbf-4bf0-b98c-1842537c7743.jpg?v=1777233553","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-what-there-is-for-stephan-kramer-9783465038689","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}