Absolute Generality

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-927643-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Is it possible to quantify over absolutely all there is? Or must all of our quantifiers range over a less-than-all-inclusive domain? It has commonly been thought that the question of absolute generality is intimately connected with the set-theoretic antinomies. But the topic of absolute generality has enjoyed a surge of interest in recent years. It has become increasingly apparent that its ramifications extend well beyond the foundations of set theory. Connections include semantic indeterminacy, logical consequence, higher-order languages, and metaphysics.

Rayo and Uzquiano present for the first time a collection of essays on absolute generality. These newly commissioned articles -- written by an impressive array of international scholars -- draw the reader into the forefront of contemporary research on the subject. The volume represents a variety of approaches to the problem, with some of the contributions arguing for the possibility of all-inclusive quantification and some of them arguing against it. An introduction by the editors draws a helpful map of the philosophical terrain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rayo, Agustin

Rayo, Agustín

Uzquiano, Gabriel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Kit Fine: Relatively Unrestricted Quantification

- 2: Michael Glanzberg: Context and Unrestricted Quantification

- 3: Geoffrey Hellman: Against 'Absolutely Everything'!

- 4: Shaughan Lavine: Something About Everything: Universal Quantification in the Universal Sense of Universal Quantification

- 5: Øystein Linnebo: Sets, Properties, and Unrestricted Quantification

- 6: Vann McGee: There's a Rule for Everything

- 7: Charles Parsons: The Problem of Absolute Universality

- 8: Agustín Rayo: Beyond Plurals

- 9: Stewart Shapiro and Crispin Wright: All Things Indefinitely Extensible

- 10: Gabriel Uzquiano: Unrestricted Unrestricted Quantification: The Cardinal Problem of Absolute Generality

- 11: Alan Weir: Is it too much to ask, to ask for everything?

- 12: Timothy Williamson: Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality