Lukas Skiba
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lukas Skiba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lukas |
| FAMILY NAME | Skiba |
| SIGNATURE | SKIBA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1670-8524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Higher-order metaphysics of ground: Introduction and overview
Engineering existence
This paper investigates the connection between two recent trends in philosophy: higher-orderism and conceptual engineering. Higher-orderists use higher-order quantifiers (in particular quantifiers binding variables that occupy the syntactic positions of predicates) to express certain key metaphysical doctrines, such as the claim that there are properties. I argue that, on a natural construal, the higher-orderist approach involves an engineering p…
Higher‐order being and time
Higher‐order metaphysicians take facts to be higher‐order beings, i.e., entities in the range of irreducibly higher‐order quantifiers. In this paper, I investigate the impact of this conception of facts on the debate about the reality of tense. I identify two major repercussions. The first concerns the logical space of tense realism: on a higher‐order conception of facts, a prominent version of tense realism, dynamic absolutism, turns out to conf…
Higher-order metaphysics and the tropes versus universals dispute
Higher-order realists about properties express their view that there are properties with the help of higher-order rather than first-order quantifiers. They claim two types of advantages for this way of formulating property realism. First, certain gridlocked debates about the nature of properties, such as the immanentism versus transcendentalism dispute, are taken to be dissolved (roughly: avoided). Second, a further such debate, the tropes versus…
Higher-order metaphysics
Subverting a once widely held Quinean paradigm, there is a growing consensus among philosophers of logic that higher-order quantifiers (which bind variables in the syntactic position of predicates and sentences) are a perfectly legitimate and useful instrument in the logico-philosophical toolbox, while neither being reducible to nor fully explicable in terms of first-order quantifiers (which bind variables in singular term position). This article…
Fictionalism and the incompleteness problem
Modal fictionalists face a problem that arises due to their possible-world story being incomplete in the sense that certain relevant claims are neither true nor false according to it. It has recently been suggested that this incompleteness problem generalises to other brands of fictionalism, such as fictionalism about composite or mathematical objects. In this paper, I argue that these fictionalist positions are particularly threatened by a gener…
On Indirect Sense and Reference
According to F rege, expressions shift their reference when they occur in indirect contexts: in “ A nna believes that P lato is wise” the expression “ P lato” no longer refers to P lato but to what is ordinarily its sense. Many philosophers, including C arnap, D avidson, B urge, P arsons, K ripke and K ünne, believe that on Frege's view the iteration of indirect context creating operators gives rise to an infinite hierarchy of senses. While the f…
Higher-order metaphysics
Subverting a once widely held Quinean paradigm, there is a growing consensus among philosophers of logic that higher-order quantifiers (which bind variables in the syntactic position of predicates and sentences) are a perfectly legitimate and useful instrument in the logico-philosophical toolbox, while neither being reducible to nor fully explicable in terms of first-order quantifiers (which bind variables in singular term position). This article…
On Indirect Sense and Reference
According to F rege, expressions shift their reference when they occur in indirect contexts: in “ A nna believes that P lato is wise” the expression “ P lato” no longer refers to P lato but to what is ordinarily its sense. Many philosophers, including C arnap, D avidson, B urge, P arsons, K ripke and K ünne, believe that on Frege's view the iteration of indirect context creating operators gives rise to an infinite hierarchy of senses. While the f…
Fictionalism and the incompleteness problem
Modal fictionalists face a problem that arises due to their possible-world story being incomplete in the sense that certain relevant claims are neither true nor false according to it. It has recently been suggested that this incompleteness problem generalises to other brands of fictionalism, such as fictionalism about composite or mathematical objects. In this paper, I argue that these fictionalist positions are particularly threatened by a gener…
Higher-order metaphysics and the tropes versus universals dispute
Higher-order realists about properties express their view that there are properties with the help of higher-order rather than first-order quantifiers. They claim two types of advantages for this way of formulating property realism. First, certain gridlocked debates about the nature of properties, such as the immanentism versus transcendentalism dispute, are taken to be dissolved (roughly: avoided). Second, a further such debate, the tropes versus…
Higher-order metaphysics
Subverting a once widely held Quinean paradigm, there is a growing consensus among philosophers of logic that higher-order quantifiers (which bind variables in the syntactic position of predicates and sentences) are a perfectly legitimate and useful instrument in the logico-philosophical toolbox, while neither being reducible to nor fully explicable in terms of first-order quantifiers (which bind variables in singular term position). This article…
Higher‐order being and time
Higher‐order metaphysicians take facts to be higher‐order beings, i.e., entities in the range of irreducibly higher‐order quantifiers. In this paper, I investigate the impact of this conception of facts on the debate about the reality of tense. I identify two major repercussions. The first concerns the logical space of tense realism: on a higher‐order conception of facts, a prominent version of tense realism, dynamic absolutism, turns out to conf…
Higher-order metaphysics of ground: Introduction and overview
Engineering existence
This paper investigates the connection between two recent trends in philosophy: higher-orderism and conceptual engineering. Higher-orderists use higher-order quantifiers (in particular quantifiers binding variables that occupy the syntactic positions of predicates) to express certain key metaphysical doctrines, such as the claim that there are properties. I argue that, on a natural construal, the higher-orderist approach involves an engineering p…
Philosophy and Theoretical Science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Philosophy of language (4 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Order (exchange) (3 works)