Metaphysics, mathematics, and meaning / Nathan Salmon.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Salmon, Nathan U., 1951-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 419 p.
• Notes: "Philosophical papers I."

Table of Contents

• Part I. Ontology
• Existence (1987)
• Nonexistence (1998)
• Mythical objects (2002)
• Part II. Necessity
• modal logic Kalish-and-Montague style (1994u)
• Impossible Worlds (1984)
• An empire of thin air (1988)
• The logic of what might have been (1989)
• Part III. Identity
• The fact that X=Y (1987)
• This side of paradox (1993)
• Identity facts (2002)
• Personal identity : what's the problem? (1995u)
• Part IV. Philosophy of mathematics
• Wholes, parts, and numbers (1997)
• The limits of human mathematics (2001)
• Part V. Theory of meaning and reference
• On content (1992)
• On designating (1997u)
• A problem in the Frege-Church theory of sense and denotation (1993)
• The very possibility of language (2001)
• Tense and intension (2003)
• Pronouns as variables (2005).