Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language (eBook)

Alessandro Torza received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University. He is currently an Associate Research Fellow at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He works in metaphysics and neighboring areas, especially the philosophy of logic and language.

Introduction; Alessandro Torza.- Part 1. Logical Constants.- Which Quantifiers are Logical? A Combined Semantical and Inferential Criterion; Solomon Feferman.- Implicit Definitions, Second-Order Quantifiers, and the Robustness of the Logical Operators; Arnold Koslow.- Quantifiers are Logical Constants, but Only Ambiguously; Sun-Joo Shin.- Part 2. Semantics of Natural Language.- Conjunctive, Disjunctive, Negative Objects and Generalized Quantification; Ken Akiba.- Quantifiers and Referential Use; Mario Gómez-Torrente.- Quantification and Logical Form; Andrea Iacona.- Quantification with Intentional and with Intensional Verbs; Frederike Moltmann.- Part III The Carnap-Quine Legacy.- Life on the Range: Quine’s Thesis and Semantic Indeterminacy; G. Aldo Antonelli.- Chalmers, Quantifier Variance and Mathematicians’ Freedom; Sharon Berry.- “There Is an ‘Is’ in There Is”: Meinongian Quantification and Existence; Francesco Berto.- Qualifying Quantifying-in; Bjørn Jespersen.- Carnap, Quine, Quantification and Ontology; Gregory Lavers.- Quantifier Variance, Intensionality, and Metaphysical Merit; David Liebesman.- Part 4. Metaphysics and Ontology.- Making Quantified Truths True; Axel Arturo Barcelό Aspeitia.-Absolute Generality and Semantic Pessimism; J.P. Studd.- Necessarily Maybe. Quantifiers, Modality and Vagueness: Alessandro Torza.- What’s in a (Mental) Picture; Alberto Voltolini.- Part 5. Logical Systems.- Cross-World Identity, Temporal Quantifiers and the Question of Tensed Contents; Tero Tulenheimo.- What’s So Bad about Second-Order Logic?; Jason Turner.- ∀ and ω; Elia Zardini.