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Klappentext Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential 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 Godel's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation. Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Ontology 1: Existence (1987) 2: Nonexistence (1998) 3: Mythical Objects (2002) II. Necessity 4: Modal Logic Kalish-and-Montague Style (1994) 5: Impossible Worlds (1984) 6: An Empire of Thin Air (1988) 7: The Logic of What Might Have Been (1989) III. Identity 8: The fact that x=y (1987) 9: This Side of Paradox (1993) 10: Identity Facts (2003) 11: Personal Identity: What's the Problem? (1995) IV. Philosophy of Mathematics 12: Wholes, Parts, and Numbers (1997) 13: The Limits of Human Mathematics (2001) V. Theory of Meaning and Reference 14: On Content (1992) 15: On Designating (1997) 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)
