In the decades following Quine, debates about existence have taken center stage in the
metaphysics. But neo-Quinean ontology has reached a crisis point, given the endless …

Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness,
rightness, what ought to be done, and so on. In their investigations they employ and …

Truth is one of the most debated topics in philosophy; Wolfgang Künne presents a
comprehensive critical examination of all major theories. Conceptions of Truth is organized …

There is a long history of worrying about whether or not metaphysics is a legitimate
philosophical discipline. Traditionally such worries center around issues of meaning and …

A number of important philosophical problems are closely connected to questions in
ontology. For example, to make progress in the philosophy of arithmetic, one needs to come …

The term 'proposition'has a broad use in contemporary philosophy. It is used to refer to some
or all of the following: the primary bearers of truth-value, the objects of belief and other …

Ontology is the philosophical discipline that tries to find out what there is: what entities make
up reality, what is the stuff the world is made from? Thus, ontology is part of metaphysics …

In his groundbreaking Grundlagen, Frege (1884) pointed out that number words
like'four'occur in ordinary language in two quite different ways and that this gives rise to a …

When ordinary people--mathematicians among them--take something to follow (deductively)
from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason …

One puzzling feature of talk about properties, propositions and natural numbers is that
statements that are explicitly about them can be introduced apparently without change of …