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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Stalnaker (Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 21.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 14.80cm Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9780197647035ISBN 10: 0197647030 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 12 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 ReferencesReviewsHis book adopts a self-consciously neo-Quinean methodology, and argues that the theory that is developed helps to motivate and clarify Quine's naturalistic metaphysical picture. * MathSciNet * Author InformationRobert 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |