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Robert Stalnaker, Propositions: Ontology and Logic, Oxford University Press, 2023, 196pp., $34.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780197647035.
Reviewed by Jeff Speaks, University of Notre Dame
No one has done more to shape contemporary discussions of the nature of propositions and their theoretical roles than Robert Stalnaker. This insightful and tightly argued monograph gives Stalnaker’s latest thoughts on this central topic. It will, and should, attract the interest of anyone interested in the role of propositions in metaphysics, logic, and the philosophies of mind and language.
Stalnaker is well known for defending (in his hugely influential 1984 book Inquiry and elsewhere) the view that propositions are sets of possible worlds (or functions from worlds to truth values). Much of the discussion of Stalnaker’s theory has focused on the question of whether we instead should identify propositions with more “fine-grained” entities (such as structured propositions of one sort or another). The purpose…
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