Absolute Generality

by Agustín Rayo, Gabriel Uzquiano

Overview

The problem of absolute generality has attracted much attention in recent philosophy. Agustin Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano have assembled a distinguished team of contributors to write new essays on the topic. They investigate the question of whether it is possible to attain absolute generality in thought and language and the ramifications of this question in the philosophy of logic and mathematics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199276431
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/18/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Oxford University

The Ohio State University

Table of Contents

Introduction, Agustín Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano1. Relatively Unrestricted Quantification, Kit Fine2. Context and Unrestricted Quantification, Michael Glanzberg3. Against 'Absolutely Everything'!, Geoffrey Hellman4. Something About Everything: Universal Quantification in the Universal Sense of Universal Quantification, Shaughan Lavine5. Sets, Properties, and Unrestricted Quantification, Øystein Linnebo6. There's a Rule for Everything, Vann McGee7. The Problem of Absolute Universality, Charles Parsons8. Beyond Plurals, Agustín Rayo9. All Things Indefinitely Extensible, Stewart Shapiro and Crispin Wright10. Unrestricted Unrestricted Quantification: The Cardinal Problem of Absolute Generality, Gabriel Uzquiano11. Is it too much to ask, to ask for everything?, Alan Weir12. Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality, Timothy Williamson

Editorial Reviews

"Rayo and Uzquiano have put together a fine collection of essays on this knotty issue.... The volume starts with a brief introduction by the editors, which nicely sets the scene. As one would expect from a bunch of logicians of this calibre, the essays are insightful, thought provoking, and often technically clever."—Graham Priest, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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