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On What There Is For Things To Be

Ontological Commitment and Second-Order Quantification

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-3-465-03868-9
Verlag: Vittorio Klostermann
Erscheinungstermin: 30.09.2014
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If Art is smart and Art is rich, then someone is both smart and rich – namely, Art. And if Art is smart and Bart is smart, then Art is something that Bart is, too – namely, smart. The first claim involves first-order quantification, a generalization concerning what kinds of things there are. The second involves second-order quantification, a generalization concerning what there is for things to be. Or so it appears. Following W.V.O. Quine, many philosophers have endorsed a thesis of Ontological Collapse about second-order quantification. They maintain that ultimately, second-order quantification reduces to first-order quantification over sets or properties, and therefore also carries the latter’s distinctive ontological commitments.
In this revised version of his doctoral dissertation, awarded the Wolfgang-Stegmüller-Prize in 2012, Stephan Krämer examines the major arguments for Ontological Collapse in detail and finds all of them wanting. Quantifications, he argues, fall into at least two irreducible kinds: those on what things there are, and those on what there is for things to be.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9783465038689
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-3-465-03868-9
  • Verlag: Vittorio Klostermann
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.09.2014
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1., 2014
  • Serie: Studies in Theoretical Philosophy
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, KART
  • Gewicht: 396 g
  • Seiten: 260
  • Format (B x H): 155 x 235 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Stephan Krämer ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Philosophischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg.