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Language, Truth and Ontology

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  1. Kevin Mulligan
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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 51)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Basic Ontological Categories

    • Roderick M. Chisholm
    Pages 1-13

  3. Properties

    • D. M. Armstrong
    Pages 14-27

  4. On Negative and Disjunctive Properties

    • Uwe Meixner
    Pages 28-36

  5. Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals

    • Keith Lehrer, Vann Mcgee
    Pages 37-47

  6. Characteristica Universalis

    • Barry Smith
    Pages 48-77

  7. Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects

    • Karel Lambert
    Pages 78-86

  8. Truth Makers, Truth Predicates, and Truth Types

    • Herbert Hochberg
    Pages 87-117

  9. Worlds and States of Affairs: How Similar Can They be?

    • Graeme Forbes
    Pages 118-132

  10. Was Frege Right about Variable Objects?

    • Marco Santambrogio
    Pages 133-156

  11. Logical Atomism and Its Ontological Refinement: A Defense

    • Peter Simons
    Pages 157-179

  12. Intentionality and Tendency: How to Make Aristotle Up-to-Date

    • Ingvar Johansson
    Pages 180-192

  13. Leibniz on Properties and Individuals

    • Wolfgang Lenzen
    Pages 193-204

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 205-214
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All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui", Geneva, 3-5 June 1988. The three exceptions, the papers by David Armstrong, Uwe Meixner and Wolfgang Lenzen, were presented at the colloquium on "Properties", Zinal, June 1-3, 1990. It was, incidentally, at the second of these two colloquia that the European Society for Analytic Philosophy came into being. The fathers of analytic philosophy - Moore and Russell - were in no doubt that ontology or metaphysics as well as the topics oflanguage, truth and logic constituted the core subject-matter of their "analytic realism", 1 for the task of metaphysics as they conceived things was the description of 2 the world. And logic and ontology are indissolubly linked in the system of the grandfather of analytic philosophy, Frege. After the Golden Age of analytic philosophy - in Cambridge and Austria - opposition to realism as well as the "linguistic turn" contributed for a long time to the eclipse of ontology. 3 Thanks in large measure to the work of some of the senior contributors to the present volume - Roderick Chisholm, Herbert Hochberg, David Armstrong and Karel Lambert - ontology and metaphysics now enjoy once again the central position they occupied some eighty years ago in the heyday of analytic philosophy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language, Truth and Ontology

  • Editors: Kevin Mulligan

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2602-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1509-4Published: 31 December 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5149-1Published: 23 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2602-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 214

  • Topics: Ontology, Metaphysics, Logic

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