Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning Philosophical Papers [Hardcover]

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaningbrings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic; strict identity, including personal identity; numbers and numerical quantifiers; the philosophical significance of G?del's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation. Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

Introduction
I. Ontology
1. Existence (1987)
2. Nonexistence (1998)
3. Mythical Objects (2002)
II. Necessity
4. Modal Logic Kalish-and-Montague Style (1994)
5. Impossible Worlds (1984)
6. An Empire of Thin Air (1988)
7. The Logic of What Might Have Been (1989)
III. Identity
8. The fact that x=y (1987)
9. This Side of Paradox (1993)
10. Identity Facts (2003)
11. Personal Identity: What's the Problem? (1995)
IV. Philosophy of Mathematics
12. Wholes, Parts, and Numbers (1997)
13. The Limits of Human Mathematics (2001)
V. Theory of Meaning and Reference
14. On Content (1992)
15. On Designating (1997)
16. A Problem in the Frege-Church Theory of Sense and Denotation (1993)
17. The Very Possibility of Language (2001)
18. Tense and Intension (2003)
19. Pronouns as Variables (2005)