Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers

by Nathan Salmon

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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

Genres: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Mathematics

436 pages, Hardcover

First published November 24, 2005