Higher-Order Metaphysics PDF
by Nicholas Jones, Peter Fritz
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This volume explores the use of higher-order logics in metaphysics.
Higher-order logics are natural extensions of the common systems of predicate logic, with a history going back to the very beginnings of formal logic.
Such logics are well suited to formalize metaphysical views and arguments.
Over the last decade, there has been a resurgence of interest in higher-order metaphysics. Seventeen original essays are grouped under five headings.
Three introductory chapters present higher-order languages and motivate their use in metaphysics.
Three chapters on pure higher-order metaphysics discuss different options of higher-order languages and logics which may be used in metaphysics.
Three chapters on applied higher-order metaphysics consider the application of higher-order logic to various central topics of metaphysics.
Three historical chapters trace the development ofhigher-order logic as it relates to metaphysics over the last 150 years.
The volume concludes with a discussion, containing two chapters criticizing the use of higher-order logic in metaphysics, as well as responses to these criticisms by two authors.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:21/03/2024
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- ISBN:9780192647887