Propositions

Robert Stalnaker received his PhD from Princeton in 1965, and taught over the next fifty years at Yale, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell and MIT. He is the author of four books: Inquiry (1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (2007), Mere Possibilities (2012), and Context (2015). He has also published three collections of papers, all with Oxford: Context and Content (1999), Ways a World Might Be (2003), and Knowledge and Conditionals (2019). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

Introduction

Chapter I. The Quinean legacy

Chapter II. Propositions

Chapter III. Predicates and predication

Chapter IV. First-order modal logic, and a first-order theory of propositions

Chapter V. Properties and relations

Chapter VI. Possible worlds and possible individuals

References