Absolute Generality [Paperback]

The problem of absolute generality has attracted much attention in recent philosophy. Agustin Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano have assembled a distinguished team of contributors to write new essays on the topic. They investigate the question of whether it is possible to attain absolute generality in thought and language and the ramifications of this question in the philosophy of logic and mathematics.

Introduction,Agust?n Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano
1. Relatively Unrestricted Quantification,Kit Fine
2. Context and Unrestricted Quantification,Michael Glanzberg
3. Against 'Absolutely Everything'!,Geoffrey Hellman
4. Something About Everything: Universal Quantification in the Universal Sense of Universal Quantification,Shaughan Lavine
5. Sets, Properties, and Unrestricted Quantification,?ystein Linnebo
6. There's a Rule for Everything,Vann McGee
7. The Problem of Absolute Universality,Charles Parsons
8. Beyond Plurals,Agust?n Rayo
9. All Things Indefinitely Extensible,Stewart Shapiro and Crispin Wright
10. Unrestricted Unrestricted Quantification: The Cardinal Problem of Absolute Generality,Gabriel Uzquiano
11. Is it too much to ask, to ask for everything?,Alan Weir
12. Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality,Timothy Williamson

Rayo and Uzquiano have put together a fine collection of essays on this knotty issue.... The volume starts with a brief introduction by the editors, which nicely sets the scene. As one would expect from a bunch of logicians of this calibre, the essays are insightful, thought provoking, and often technically clever. --Graham Priest,Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews