Higher-order metaphysics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lukas Skiba (0000-0003-1670-8524, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12756 |
| OpenAlex | W3196341980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 59 |
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 discusses the impact of this quantificational paradigm shift on metaphysics, focussing on theories of properties, propositions, and identity, as well as on the metaphysics of modality
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Ordinal type theory
Opacity in the book of the world
Higher-order metaphysics of ground
Against relationalism about modality
Higher‐order being and time
Engineering existence
Property dualists shouldn’t be nominalists about properties
Against Representational Levels
Properties and Propositions
Possible Worlds as Propositions
The Construction of Logical Space
The Nature and Structure of Content
Propositional Content
Guide to ground
To Be is to be a Value of a Variable (or to be Some Values of Some Variables)
Conceptions of Truth
Modal Logic as Metaphysics
Higher-order metaphysics and the tropes versus universals dispute
Everything
An Argument For Necessitism
To Be F Is To Be G
The Prenective View of propositional content
Structure by proxy, with an application to grounding
Propositional Attitudes Without Propositions
Actualism, ontological commitment, and possible world semantics
Converse Relations
Logical Combinatorialism
Hopes, Fears, and Other Grammatical Scarecrows
Nominalist Platonism
Neutral Relations
Grounding, Essence, and Identity
Unrestricted Quantification and the Structure of Type Theory
The problems of philosophy
Unrestricted Quantification
Counting Things that Could Exist
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |