Research Catalog

Title

Being necessary : themes of ontology and modality from the work of Bob Hale / edited by Ivette Fred-Rivera and Jessica Leech.

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fred Rivera, Ivette
• Leech, Jessica

Subject

• Hale, Bob, 1945-
• Ontology
• Modality (Theory of knowledge)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

On some arguments for the necessity and irreducibility of necessity / John Divers -- The world of truth-making / Kit Fine -- Essentialism and logical consequence / Rosanna Keefe, Jessica Leech -- Radical contingentism, or; why not even numbers exist necessarily / Peter Simons -- Properties and predicates, objects and names : impredicativity and the axiom of choice / Stewart Shapiro -- Predication, possibility, and choice / Roy T. Cook -- Logicism, ontology, and the epistemology of second-order logic / Richard Kimberly Heck -- On the permissibility of impredicative comprehension / Ø ystein Linnebo -- Neo-Fregeanism and the Burali-Forti paradox / Ian Rumfitt -- Analytic essentialist approaches to the epistemology of modality / Anand Jayprakash Vaidya -- Rethinking the epistemology of modality for Abstracta / Sònia Roca-Royes -- Counter-conceivability again / Crispin Wright.

Call Number

JFE 19-2509

ISBN

• 9780198792161
• 0198792166

LCCN

2018936570

OCLC

1057686401

Title

Being necessary : themes of ontology and modality from the work of Bob Hale / edited by Ivette Fred-Rivera and Jessica Leech.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Description

290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary

"What is the relationship between ontology and modality - between what there is, and what there could be, must be, or might have been? Bob Hale interwove these two strands of metaphysics throughout his long and distinguished career, putting forward his theses in his book, Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them (OUP 2013). Hale addressed questions of ontology and modality on a number of fronts: through the development of a Fregean approach to ontology, an essentialist theory of modality, and in his work on neo-logicism in the philosophy of mathematics. The essays in this volume engage with these themes in Hale's work in order to progress our understanding of ontology, modality, and the relations between them. Some directly address questions in modal metaphysics, drawing on ontological concerns, while others raise questions in modal epistemology and of its links to matters of ontology, such as the challenge to give an epistemology of essence. Several essays also engage with questions of what might be called 'modal ontology': the study of whether and what things exist necessarily or contingently. Such issues have an important bearing on the kinds of semantic commitments engendered in logic and mathematics (to the existence of sets, or numbers, or properties, and so on) and the extent to which one's ontology of necessary beings interacts with other plausible assumptions and commitments."-- Provided by publisher.

Added Author

Fred Rivera, Ivette, editor.

Leech, Jessica, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-2509