Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers

By Nathan Salmon

Book Overview

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 G del'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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199281769
• ISBN13: 9780199281763
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"