Operators vs Quantifiers

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-58095-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

In this volume, seven experts in logic and semantics examine reasons for using the intensional operator approach over the variable binding approach and vice versa.

In logic and semantics there are two alternative tools that can be applied to many types of embedding phrases (modal, temporal, etc): the intensional operator approach and the variable binding approach. A rivalry between operators and quantifiers occurs in many areas of semantics: e.g. tense, modality, locational operators, epistemic modality. There are areas where the operator approach dominates, and areas where quantifiers prevail. Sometimes, as in the case of tense, roles have switched, and where one approach used to dominate, the other has taken over. This volume features contributions from leading experts in the field that examine the following questions:

- what exactly is at stake in a choice between the alternatives?

- are there any principled reasons for deciding which approach to use in which case?

- should we be purists and eliminate one approach completely in favour of the other?

Operators vs Quantifiers will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of philosophy, linguistics, computer science and mathematics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Inquiry.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kölbel, Max

Rey, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Mathematische Logik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Are quantifiers intensional operators? 2. Binding bound variables in epistemic contexts 3. Operators vs. quantifiers: the view from linguistics 4. Confessions of a schmentencite: towards an explicit semantics 5. Positing covert variables and the quantifier theory of tense 6. Looking backwards in type logic

Über Autor(innen)

Max Kölbel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria.

David Rey is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Universidad del Valle, Colombia.