Robust Reality: An Essay in Formal Ontology

by George Englebretsen

Overview

Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn’t give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real world in all of this. The result is a robust account of reality. The inspiration for many of the ideas that constitute this overall theory comes from such sources as Aristotle, Leibniz, Ryle, and Sommers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110325126
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/15/2011
Series:	Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , #46
Pages:	197
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

George Englebretsen is professor emeritus at Bishop’s University in Québec. His main areas of research have been in logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.