Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers

Nathan Salmon9780199284719, 0199284717, 0199281769, 9780199281763, 9781435631496

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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Halftitle……Page 2
Inside Cover……Page 4
Copyright……Page 5
Dedication……Page 6
Preface: A Father’s Message……Page 8
Acknowledgments……Page 11
Volume I Contents……Page 14
Introduction to Volume I……Page 16
PART I: ONTOLOGY……Page 22
1 — Existence (1987)……Page 24
2 — Nonexistence (1998)……Page 65
3 — Mythical Objects (2002)……Page 106
PART II: NECESSITY……Page 124
4 — Modal Logic Kalish-and-Montague Style (1994u)……Page 126
5 — Impossible Worlds (1984)……Page 134
6 — An Empire of Thin Air (1988)……Page 137
7 — The Logic of What Might Have Been (1989)……Page 144
PART III: IDENTITY……Page 166
8 — The Fact that x=y (1987)……Page 168
9 — This Side of Paradox (1993)……Page 170
10 — Identity Facts (2002)……Page 180
11 — Personal Identity: What’s the Problem? (1995u)……Page 207
PART IV: PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS……Page 242
12 — Wholes, Parts, and Numbers (1997)……Page 244
13 — The Limits of Human Mathematics (2001)……Page 258
PART V: THEORY OF MEANING AND REFERENCE……Page 282
14 — On Content (1992)……Page 284
15 — On Designating (2005)……Page 301
16 — A Problem in the Frege–Church Theory of Sense and Denotation (1993)……Page 350
17 — The Very Possibility of Language (2001)……Page 359
18 — Tense and Intension (2003)……Page 380
19 — Pronouns as Variables (2005)……Page 414
Bibliography of Nathan Salmon,1979–2005……Page 422
Index……Page 426