Jody Azzouni

Talking about Nothing

Numbers, Hallucinations, and Fictions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconfigures metaphysics (and the role of metaphysics in semantics) in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties, and so are not the truth-makers for the truths and falsities that are about them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780199937684
• ISBN-10: 0199937680
• Artikelnr.: 35483692

Autorenporträt

Jody Azzouni is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, and author of Deflating Existential Consequence and Tracking Reason.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction
Part I. Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions
1 Numbers
2 Hallucinations
3 Fictions
Conclusion to Part I
Part II. Languages with and without ontology
Introduction to Part II
4 Scientific languages, ontology and truth
5 Truth conditions and semantics
General Conclusion