THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOGICAL SPACE by Agustin Rayo ( 9780198747987 )

Item Details

Title:

THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOGICAL SPACE

By:

Agustin Rayo

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£31.99

Our price:

£27.99

Discount:

12.5% off

You save:

£4.00

ISBN 10:

0198747985

ISBN 13:

9780198747987

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

3 September, 2015

Pages:

244

Description:

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. Agustin Rayo argues that this is shaped by acceptance or rejection of 'just is'-statements: e.g. 'to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O'. He offers a novel conception of metaphysical possibility, and a trivialist philosophy of mathematics.

Synopsis:

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. In The Construction of Logical Space Agustin Rayo defends the idea that one's conception of logical space is shaped by one's acceptance or rejection of 'just is'-statements: statements like 'to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O', or 'for the number of the dinosaurs to be zero just is for there to be no dinosaurs'. The resulting picture is used to articulate a conception of metaphysical possibility that does not depend on a reduction of the modal to the non-modal, and to develop a trivialist philosophy of mathematics, according to which the truths of pure mathematics have trivial truth-conditions.

Publication:

Imprint:

Oxford University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

ABSOLUTE GENERALITY (HB)

ABSOLUTE GENERALITY (PB)

ON THE BRINK OF PARADOX (HB)

THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOGICAL SPACE (HB)