Massimiliano Carrara

Gebundenes Buch

Unity and Plurality

Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics

Herausgeber: Arapinis, Alexandra; Moltmann, Friederike

Beschreibung

This volume brings together new work on the logic and ontology of plurality and on the semantics of plurals in natural language. A team of leading experts explore the traditions of plural reference and a singularist approach to plurals; investigate non-standard mereology; and explore novel applications to natural language phenomena.

Autor

Massimiliano Carrara is Associate professor of Logic and Philosophy of Language at the University of Padua (Italy). He is also Principal investigator of the COGITO Research centre in Philosophy, University of Bologna. He has been visiting professor at Columbia University (New York), at the ILLC (Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation), UVA (Amsterdam), at the Department of Philosophy, Delft, University of Technology, at the School of Philosophy of the University of Melbourne, and at the at the LOA-CNR (Trento, Italy). His main research interests are in logic, philosophy of logic, applied logic, and metaphysics. Alexandra Arapinis is Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Applied Ontology in Trento. She has received a PhD in Philosophy from Sorbonne University (Paris). Friederike Moltmann is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France and senior visiting fellow in the philosophy department at New York University. Her research is in philosophy and linguistic semantics and especially the interface between the two. She is author of Parts and Wholes in Semantics (OUP, 1997) and Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language (OUP 2013).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780198716327
• ISBN-10: 019871632X
• Artikelnr.: 47868437