This is the first book on the provocative and innovative contributions to philosophy of language, metaphysics, the philosophy of mathematics, and logic made by Kit Fine, one of the world's foremost philosophers. Topics covered include meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality.
This is the first book on the provocative and innovative contributions to philosophy of language, metaphysics, the philosophy of mathematics, and logic made by Kit Fine, one of the world's foremost philosophers. Topics covered include meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality.
Mircea Dumitru is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. He is also Rector of the University of Bucharest and Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University. He has previously held the position of President of the European Society of Analytic Philosophy and is currently the President of the International Institute of Philosophy. His research focuses on philosophical logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of language.
Inhaltsangabe
* Kit Fine: A Philosopher's Philosopher * I Metaphysics * 1: Fred Kroon and Jonathan McKeown-Green: Ontology: What's the (Real) Question? * 2: Philip Percival: Beyond Reality? * 3: Joseph Almog: One Absolutely Infinite Universe to Rule Them All: Reverse Reflection, Reverse Metaphysics * 4: Alasdair Urquhart: Fine on Arbitrary Objects * 5: Gabriel Sandu: Indefinites, Skolem Functions, and Arbitrary Objects * 6: Kathrin Koslicki: Essence and Identity * 7: Kit Fine: Indeterminate Identity, Personal Identity and Fission * 8: Graeme Forbes: Fine's New Semantics of Vagueness * II Modality * 9: Steven T. Kuhn: Necessary, Transcendental, and Universal Truth * 10: Gideon Rosen: What is Normative Necessity? * 11: Bob Hale: The problem of de re modality * 12: Penelope Mackie: Can Metaphysical Modality be Based on Essence? * 13: Fabrice Correia: More on the Reduction of Necessity to Essence * 14: Jessica Wilson: Essence and Dependence * 15: Scott Shalkowski: Essence and Nominalism * 16: Robert Goldblatt: Fine's Theorem on First-Order Complete Modal Logics * III Language * 17: Gary Ostertag: Fine on Frege's Puzzle * 18: Paolo Bonardi: Coordination, Understanding, and Semantic Requirement * 19: Friederike Moltmann: Variable Objects and Truth-Making * IV Kit Fine's Responses * Publications of Kit Fine
* Kit Fine: A Philosopher's Philosopher * I Metaphysics * 1: Fred Kroon and Jonathan McKeown-Green: Ontology: What's the (Real) Question? * 2: Philip Percival: Beyond Reality? * 3: Joseph Almog: One Absolutely Infinite Universe to Rule Them All: Reverse Reflection, Reverse Metaphysics * 4: Alasdair Urquhart: Fine on Arbitrary Objects * 5: Gabriel Sandu: Indefinites, Skolem Functions, and Arbitrary Objects * 6: Kathrin Koslicki: Essence and Identity * 7: Kit Fine: Indeterminate Identity, Personal Identity and Fission * 8: Graeme Forbes: Fine's New Semantics of Vagueness * II Modality * 9: Steven T. Kuhn: Necessary, Transcendental, and Universal Truth * 10: Gideon Rosen: What is Normative Necessity? * 11: Bob Hale: The problem of de re modality * 12: Penelope Mackie: Can Metaphysical Modality be Based on Essence? * 13: Fabrice Correia: More on the Reduction of Necessity to Essence * 14: Jessica Wilson: Essence and Dependence * 15: Scott Shalkowski: Essence and Nominalism * 16: Robert Goldblatt: Fine's Theorem on First-Order Complete Modal Logics * III Language * 17: Gary Ostertag: Fine on Frege's Puzzle * 18: Paolo Bonardi: Coordination, Understanding, and Semantic Requirement * 19: Friederike Moltmann: Variable Objects and Truth-Making * IV Kit Fine's Responses * Publications of Kit Fine
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