Toward Predicate Approaches to Modality

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Buch | Hardcover
VIII, 190 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-22556-2 (ISBN)

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lt;p>In this volume, the author investigates and argues for, a particular answer to the question: What is the right way to logically analyze modalities from natural language within formal languages? The answer is: by formalizing modal expressions in terms of predicates. But, as in the case of truth, the most intuitive modal principles lead to paradox once the modal notions are conceived as predicates.

The book discusses the philosophical interpretation of these modal paradoxes and argues that any satisfactory approach to modality will have to face the paradoxes independently of the grammatical category of the modal notion. By systematizing modal principles with respect to their joint consistency and inconsistency, Stern provides an overview of the options and limitations of the predicate approach to modality that may serve as a useful starting point for future work on predicate approaches to modality. Stern also develops a general strategy for constructing philosophically attractive theories of modal notions conceived as predicates. The idea is to characterize the modal predicate by appeal to its interaction with the truth predicate. This strategy is put to use by developing the modal theories Modal Friedman-Sheard and Modal Kripke-Feferman.

Johannes Stern is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He received his PhD in 2012 from the University of Geneva.and was awarded the Paul Bernays Award by the Swiss Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science for his doctoral dissertation. Johannes Stern s main research interests are in Logic, Philosophy of Logic and Language, and Epistemology.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Modality and Logic.- Chapter 3. Consistencies and Inconsistencies in Modal Logic.- Chapter 4. Modality and Axiomatic Theories of Truth.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

"The book can be considered a deep analysis of modal paradoxes, providing an overview of limitations of the predicate modality treatment.  It is almost self-contained and presents a good starting point in research of the axiomatic theories of truth." (Branislav Boricic, Mathematical Reviews, May 2017)

“The book can be considered a deep analysis of modal paradoxes, providing an overview of limitations of the predicate modality treatment.  It is almost self-contained and presents a good starting point in research of the axiomatic theories of truth.” (Branislav Boričić, Mathematical Reviews, May 2017)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.10.2015
Reihe/Serie Trends in Logic
Zusatzinfo VIII, 190 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Schlagworte Epistemology • Logic • mathematics and statistics • Metaphysics • Modal Logic • Modal Predicates • Montague's Theorem • Montague’s Theorem • Multimodal Logic • Paradoxes of indirect discourse • Paradoxes of Interaction • Propositional attitudes • Provability Logic • Semantic paradoxes • Syntactical treatment of modality • Theories of truth
ISBN-10 3-319-22556-1 / 3319225561
ISBN-13 978-3-319-22556-2 / 9783319225562
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