Provides a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of propositions, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Comprising 33 original chapters by an international team of scholars, the volume addresses both traditional and emerging questions concerning the nature of propositions.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of propositions, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Comprising 33 original chapters by an international team of scholars, the volume addresses both traditional and emerging questions concerning the nature of propositions.
Propositions are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, logicians, and other theorists engaged in the study of meaning, communication, and the mind. To investigate the nature of propositions is to investigate the very nature of our connection to each other, and to the world around us. As one of the only volumes of its kind, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions provides a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of propositions, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Comprising 33 original chapters by an international team of scholars, the volume addresses both traditional and emerging questions concerning the nature of propositions, and our capacity to engage with them in thought and in communication. The chapters are clearly organized into the following three sections:
I. Foundational Issues in the Theory of Propositions
II. Historical Theories of Propositions
III. Contemporary Theories of Propositions
Essential reading for philosophers of language and mind, and for those working in neighboring areas, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions is suitable for upper-level undergraduate study, as well as graduate and professional research.
Introduction Part I: Foundational Issues in the Theory of Propositions
1. The Linguistic Basis for Propositions
2. Propositions, Posits, and States
of Affairs
3. Instrumentalism about Structured Propositions Part II:
Historical Theories of Propositions
4. Ancient Theories of Propositions
5.
Medieval Theories of Propositions: Ockham and the Later Medieval Debate
6.
Lockean Propositions
7. Kant, Propositions, and Non-Fundamental Metaphysics
8. Bolzanos Theory of Satz an sich
9. Frege on Thoughts
10. Russell on
Propositions Part III: Contemporary Theories and Further Issues
11.
Propositions as (Flexible) Types of Possibilities
12. Truthmaker Accounts of
Propositions
13. Syntactically Structured Propositions
14. Propositions as
Interpreted Abstracta
15. The View of Propositions as Types of Actions
16.
Cognitive Propositions: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Empirical Adequacy
17.
Propositions as Cambridge Properties
18. Why 0-Adic Relations Have Truth
Conditions: Essence, Ground, and Non-Hylomorphic Russellian Propositions
19.
Propositions without Parts
20. Hylomorphic Propositions
21. Temporal
Propositions and Our Attitudes toward the Past and the Future
22. Frege's
Other Puzzle: Relativity in Propositional Content
23. Propositions and
Attitudes De Se
24. Propositional Dependence and Perspectival Shift
25.
Attitudinal Objects and Propositions
26. Propositions as Objects of the
Attitudes
27. The Varieties of Gappy Propositions
28. Plenitudinous
Russellianism
29. Semantic Relationism
30. Propositions and Questions
31. The
Propositional Benacerraf Problem
32. Reference, Propositions, and the World
33. Propositional Paradox
Adam Russell Murray is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manitoba. He works primarily in metaphysics and the philosophy of language.
Chris Tillman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manitoba. His research interests include metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and philosophy of art.
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