Metaphysics, meaning, and modality : themes from Kit Fine / edited by Mircea Dumitru.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dumitru, Mircea, 1960- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fine, Kit.

Metaphysics.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Modality (Theory of knowledge).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 519 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Themes from Kit Fine

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This is an edited volume on the philosophy of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers. The volume is intended for philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists interested in metaphysics, language, and philosophical logic. The readers will benefit from the debates over Kit Fine's novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, metaphysics of modality, and constitution of things. The work contains original essays which evaluate both the philosophical and some of the formal seminal contributions of Kit Fine to contemporary metaphysics, ontology, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. The chapters in the work also advance new ideas and arguments which help in developing the debates on concepts of interests not only for philosophers but also for linguists and cognitive scientists who are interested in the foundations of their own fields.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Metaphysics

1. Ontology: What's the (Real) Question? / Jonathan McKeown-Green

2. Beyond Reality? / Philip Percival

3. One Absolutely Infinite Universe to Rule Them All: Reverse Reflection, Reverse Metaphysics / Joseph Almog

4. Fine on Arbitrary Objects / Alasdair Urquhart

5. Indefinites, Skolem Functions, and Arbitrary Objects / Gabriel Sandu

6. Essence and Identity / Kathrin Koslicki

7. Indeterminate Identity, Personal Identity, and Fission / Kit Fine

8. Fine's New Semantics of Vagueness / Graeme Forbes

II. Modality

9. Necessary, Transcendental, and Universal Truth / Steven T. Kuhn

10. What is Normative Necessity? / Gideon Rosen

11. Problem of de re Modality / Bob Hale

12. Can Metaphysical Modality Be Based on Essence? / Penelope Mackie

13. More on the Reduction of Necessity to Essence / Fabrice Correia

14. Essence and Dependence / Jessica Wilson

15. Essence and Nominalism / Scott A. Shalkowski

16. Fine's Theorem on First-Order Complete Modal Logics / Robert Goldblatt

III. Language

17. Fine on Frege's Puzzle / Gary Ostertag

18. Coordination, Understanding, and Semantic Requirements / Paolo Bonardi

19. Variable Objects and Truthmaking / Friederike Moltmann

IV. Kit Fine's Responses

Comments on Fred Kroon and Jonathan McKeown-Green's "Ontology: What's the (Real) Question?" / Kit Fine

Comment's on Philip Percival's "Beyond Reality?" / Kit Fine

Comments on Joseph Almog's "One Absolutely Infinite Universe to Rule Them All: Reverse Reflection, Reverse Metaphysics" / Kit Fine

Comments on Alasdair Urquhart's "Fine on Arbitrary Objects" / Kit Fine

Comments on Gabriel Sandu's "Indefinites, Skolem Functions, and Arbitrary Objects" / Kit Fine

Comments on Kathrin Koslicki's "Essence and Identity" / Kit Fine

Comments on Graeme Forbes's "Fine's New Semantics of Vagueness" / Kit Fine

Comments on Steven T. Kuhn's "Necessary, Transcendental, and Universal Truth" / Kit Fine

Comments on Gideon Rosen's "What is Normative Necessity?" / Kit Fine

Comments on Bob Hale's "The Problem of de re Modality" / Kit Fine

Comments on Penelope Mackie's "Can Metaphysical Modality Be Based on Essence?" / Kit Fine

Comments on Fabrice Correia's "More on the Reduction of Necessity to Essence" / Kit Fine

Comments on Jessica Wilson's "Essence and Dependence" / Kit Fine

Comments on Scott Shalkowski's "Essence and Nominalism" / Kit Fine

Comments on Robert Goldblatt's "Fine's Theorem on First-Order Complete Modal Logics" / Kir Fine

Comments on Gary Ostertag's "Fine on Frege's Puzzle" / Kir Fine

Comments on Paolo Bonardi's "Coordination, Understanding, and Semantic Requirements" / Kir Fine

Comments on Friederike Moltmann's "Variable Objects and Truthmaking" / Kir Fine.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-259829-5

0-19-188966-0

0-19-259828-7