Massimiliano Carrara

Unity and Plurality

Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics
Herausgeber: Arapinis, Alexandra; Moltmann, Friederike

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I. Pluralities in Logic
* 1: Theodore Scaltsas: Relations as Plural-Predications in Plato
* 2: Øystein Linnebo: How to Harness Basic Law V
* 3: Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley: Singularist Predicative Analyses
and Boolos's Second-Order Pluralism
* 4: Peter Simons: The Ontology and Logic of Higher-Order Multitudes
* 5: Francesca Boccuni, Massimiliano Carrara, and Enrico Martino: The
Logicality of Second-Order Logic: An Analysis in Terms of Plural
Arbitrary Reference and Acts of Choice
* Part II. Pluralities in Semantics
* 6: Friederike Moltmann: Plural Reference and Reference to a
Plurality: Linguistic Facts and Semantic Analyses
* 7: Byeong-uk Yi: Quantifiers, Determiners, and Plural Constructions
* 8: Thomas J. McKay: Mass and Plural
* 9: Paolo Acquaviva: Linguistic Plurality and the Conceptualization of
Part Structure
* 10: Alexandra Arapinis: Partial Involvement: Groups and their
Structure