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Book Title
Essence and Existence
Publication Date
2020-06-25
ISBN
9780198854296
Subject Area
Philosophy
Publication Name
Essence and Existence
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Length
9.4 in
Subject
General
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Bob Hale
Item Weight
21.6 Oz
Item Width
6.4 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198854293
ISBN-13
9780198854296
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038267621

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Essence and Existence
Subject
General
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Author
Bob Hale
Subject Area
Philosophy
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
21.6 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-954046
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
111.1
Table Of Content
Introduction (Kit Fine)1. Essence and Definition by Abstraction2. Essence and Existence3. The Problem of De Re Modality4. Ontology Deflated5. Ontological Categories and the Problem of Expressibility (with Øystein Linnebo)6. What Makes True Universal Statements True?7. Exact Truthmakers, Modality, and Essence8. S5 as the Logic of Metaphysical Modality: Two Arguments for and Two Arguments Against9. Relative Necessity Reformulated (with Jessica Leech)10. Definition, Abstraction, Postulation, and Magic11. Second-order Logic: Properties, Semantics, and Existential Commitments12. The Problem of Mathematical Objects13. Properties, Predication, and Arbitrary Sets14. Ordinals by Abstraction15. Bolzano's Definition of Analytic Propositions (with Crispin Wright)Bibliography of the writings of Bob Hale
Synopsis
Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy, in dialogue (and, in some cases, in collaboration) with other leading philosophers. The notion of a definition is examined as it applies both to words-- verbal definitions -and to things-- real definitions --and the relations between these are brought out in order to address problems in the metaphysics of necessity and the semantics and epistemology of modality. Hale argues for an essentialist theory of the source of necessity and our knowledge of it, and provides rigorous and inventive responses to problems such a theory might face. This theoretical framework is applied to the recently influential truthmaking approach to semantics and logic, developing an exact truthmaker account of universal quantification and modal statements. Other topics covered include the Fregean theory of ontological categories, the status of second-order logic, the metaphysics of numbers, and the nature of analytic propositions. The volume opens with a substantial introduction by Kit Fine, providing a critical examination of Hale's philosophy, and closes with a complete bibliography of Hale's writings., Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and elucidate Hale's work on essence, truthmakers, and several other topics. Also included are an introduction by Kit Fine and a bibliography of Hale's work., Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy, in dialogue (and, in some cases, in collaboration) with other leading philosophers. The notion of a definition is examined as it applies both to words--verbal definitions-and to things--real definitions--and the relations between these are brought out in order to address problems in the metaphysics of necessity and the semantics and epistemology of modality. Hale argues for an essentialist theory of the source of necessity and our knowledge of it, and provides rigorous and inventive responses to problems such a theory might face. This theoretical framework is applied to the recently influential truthmaking approach to semantics and logic, developing an exact truthmaker account of universal quantification and modal statements. Other topics covered include the Fregean theory of ontological categories, the status of second-order logic, the metaphysics of numbers, and the nature of analytic propositions. The volume opens with a substantial introduction by Kit Fine, providing a critical examination of Hale's philosophy, and closes with a complete bibliography of Hale's writings., Essence and Existence presents a series of writings - including several previously unpublished - by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy, in dialogue (and, in some cases, in collaboration) with other leading philosophers. The notion of a definition is examined as it applies both to words - verbal definitions-and to things - real definitions--and the relations between these are brought out in order to address problems in the metaphysics of necessity and the semantics and epistemology of modality. Hale argues for an essentialist theory of the source of necessity and our knowledge of it, and provides rigorous and inventive responses to problems such a theory might face. This theoretical framework is applied to the recently influential truthmaking approach to semantics and logic, developing an exact truthmaker account of universal quantification and modal statements. Other topics covered include the Fregean theory of ontological categories, the status of second-order logic, the metaphysics of numbers, and the nature of analytic propositions. The volume opens with a substantial introduction by Kit Fine, providing a critical examination of Hale's philosophy, and closes with a complete bibliography of Hale's writings.
LC Classification Number
B105.E65
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