Causal Explanation and Ontological Commitment Mark Colyvan University of Tasmania The business of Selective Realism, is to distinguish the denoting terms from the nondenoting terms in our best scientific theories. This i

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Framework: theory of reference Ontological commitment as an aspect of semantics Framework: theory of reference Ontological commitment as an aspect of semantics

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^ 37:[removed]±92 NOUS Plural Quantification Exposed* éYSTEIN LINNEBO Harvard University

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• Predicate logic
• Quantification
• Semantics
• Analytic philosophers
• Plural quantification
• Second-order logic
• George Boolos
• Ontological commitment
• First-order logic
• Logic
• Mathematical logic
• Mathematics

When Best Theories Go Bad1 David Manley University of Southern California It is common for contemporary metaphysical realists to adopt Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment while at the same time repudiating his

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• Predicate logic
• Philosophy of language
• Semantics
• Quantification
• Ontological commitment
• Plural quantification
• Meta-ontology
• First-order logic
• Intentionality
• Logic
• Philosophy
• Mathematical logic

Open-endedness, schemas and ontological commitment∗ Nikolaj Jang Pedersen and Marcus Rossberg December 10, 2008 Abstract Second-order axiomatizations of certain important mathematical theories – such as arithmetic an

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• Predicate logic
• Model theory
• Quantification
• Analytic philosophers
• First-order logic
• George Boolos
• Second-order arithmetic
• Peano axioms
• Second-order logic
• Logic
• Mathematical logic
• Mathematics

Ontological Commitment∗ Agust´ın Rayo web.mit.edu/arayo/www/ February 9, [removed]

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• Philosophy of language
• Logical syntax
• Ontology
• Truth
• First-order logic
• Proposition
• Entailment
• Ontological commitment
• Modal logic
• Logic
• Philosophical logic
• Propositional calculus

From Ontological to Semantic Disagreement Luca Morena* * University of Bologna & University of Torino, Italy: [removed] Abstract. Among Quine’s main concerns in his “On What There Is”, there was that of

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• Reality
• Holism
• Analytic philosophers
• Pragmatists
• Willard Van Orman Quine
• Existence
• Ontological commitment
• Truth
• Philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Ontology

Ontological Nihilism∗ Jason Turner March 17, 2009 Ontological Nihilism is the radical-sounding thesis that there is nothing at all. Almost everyone believes that it is false. But this does not make it philosophically u

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• Nihilism
• Ontological commitment
• Modal logic
• Śūnyatā
• Reality
• Abstract object
• Ontology
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy

Ontological Commitment and Reconstructivism Massimiliano Carrara Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Padova, Padova (Italy) Achille C. Varzi Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York (USA)

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• Philosophy of language
• Science
• Philosophical logic
• Meaning
• Critical theory
• Reconstructivism
• Ontological commitment
• Modal logic
• Proposition
• Logic
• Ontology
• Philosophy

Truthmaker Explanations Barry Smith (IFOMIS/Buffalo) and Jonathan Simon (NYU) Abstract

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• Logic
• Truthmaker
• Truth
• Philosophical realism
• Correspondence theory of truth
• Reduction
• Ontological commitment
• Existence
• Modal logic
• Philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Ontology