Propositions: Ontology and Logic by Stalnaker, Robert

Propositions: Ontology and Logic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780197647035)

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Propositions: Ontology and Logic by Stalnaker, Robert

Propositions: Ontology and Logic

$32.99
Propositions: Ontology and Logic by Stalnaker, Robert

Propositions: Ontology and Logic

$32.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Robert Stalnaker
ISBN-10: 0197647030
ISBN-13: 9780197647035
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2022
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.84w x 0.78d
By Robert Stalnaker
By Robert Stalnaker
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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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