scholarly journals Kit Fine, The Limits of Abstraction. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2002, cloth £18.99/US $25.00. ISBN: 0-19-924618-1.

2004 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy T. Cook ◽  
Philip A. Ebert
Keyword(s):  
Kit Fine

scholarly journals Reality, fundamentality, grounding (and cognate notions)

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Sasa Popovic
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Ontological Dependence ◽  
Satisfactory Solution ◽  
Explanatory Role ◽  
Kit Fine ◽  
Metaphysical Theory ◽  
Pure Logic ◽  
Logic Of Ground ◽  
Essentially Contested Concept

The notion of grounding is one of the central notions in the debates concerning ontological dependence in contemporary metaphysics and metametaphysics. In this paper we have carried out a comparative analysis of grounding, supervenience, reality, fundamentality, and cognate notions, and we have demonstrated what their role should be in the context of neo-Aristotelian hierarchical ontologies and the project of metaphysical foundationalism. We have also sketched out some basic outlines of what Kit Fine calls ?the pure logic of ground? by establishing certain formal desiderata which grounding ought to meet in order to successfully carry out its specific ontologico- explanatory role. It is finally shown that grounding suffers from similar problems and shortcomings as supervenience, and that a satisfactory solution of those problems cannot be found by looking to metaphysical primitivism according to which grounding is a sui generis, primitive and unanalysable notion which is nonetheless essential for metaphysics. Even though grounding might turn out to be an ?essentially contested concept?, in the end we suggest how the aforementioned problems might be met by means of holistic considerations of grounding within the broader context of the entire (meta)metaphysical theory.

Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers ? Kit Fine

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (227) ◽  
pp. 294-297
Author(s):  
Øystein Linnebo
Keyword(s):  
Kit Fine

scholarly journals Towards a Hylomorphic Solution to the Grounding Problem

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 333-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Koslicki
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Kit Fine ◽  
The World ◽  
Grounding Problem ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Do So

AbstractConcrete particular objects (e.g. living organisms) figure saliently in our everyday experience as well as our in our scientific theorizing about the world. Ahylomorphicanalysis of concrete particular objects holds that these entities are, in some sense, compounds of matter (hūlē) and form (morphēoreidos). TheGrounding Problemasks why an object and its matter (e.g. a statue and the clay that constitutes it) can apparently differ with respect to certain of their properties (e.g. the clay's ability to survive being squashed, as compared to the statue's inability to do so), even though they are otherwise so much alike. In this paper, I argue that a hylomorphic analysis of concrete particular objects, in conjunction with a non-modal conception of essence of the type encountered for example in the works of Aristotle and Kit Fine, has the resources to yield a solution to the Grounding Problem.

The Problem of de re Modality

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-246
Author(s):  
Bob Hale
Keyword(s):  
Kit Fine ◽  
Singular Terms ◽  
De Re ◽  
Modal Operators ◽  
Free Variables ◽  
De Re Modality ◽  
Basic Argument ◽  
De Dicto

The problem of de re modality is how, if at all, one can make sense of it. Most who have discussed this problem have assumed that modality de dicto is relatively unproblematic. It is, rather, the interpretation of sentences involving, within the scope of modal operators, singular terms or free variables which is thought to give rise to grave—and in the view of some, insuperable—difficulties. Quine has two arguments against the intelligibility of de re modality: a “logical” and a “metaphysical” one. That the “logical” argument is central to Quine’s attack is surely indisputable. But my claim that it is his basic argument is, in effect, denied by Kit Fine. I can (and do) agree with Fine that there are some significant differences between the two arguments. The most important question, for my purposes, is whether he is right to claim that the two arguments have force independently of one another.

Peter Aczel. Quantifiers, games and inductive definitions. Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Logic Symposium, edited by Stig Kanger, Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, vol. 82, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Oxford, and American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 1–14. - Kit Fine. Some connections between elementary and modal logic. Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Logic Symposium, edited by Stig Kanger, Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, vol. 82, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Oxford, and American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 15–31. - Bengt Hansson and Peter Gärdenfors. Filtations and the finite frame property in Boolean semantics. Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Logic Symposium, edited by Stig Kanger, Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, vol. 82, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Oxford, and American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 32–39. - Jaakko Hintikka and Veikko Rantala. Systematizing definability theory. Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Logic Symposium, edited by Stig Kanger, Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, vol. 82, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Oxford, and American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 40–62. - Herman Ruge Jervell. Conservative endextensions and the quantifier ‘there exist uncountably many.’Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Logic Symposium, edited by Stig Kanger, Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, vol. 82, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Oxford, and American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 63–80. - Per Martin-Löf. About models for intuitionistic type theories and the notion of definitional equality. Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Logic Symposium, edited by Stig Kanger, Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, vol. 82, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Oxford, and American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 81–109. - Henrik Sahlqvist. Completeness and correspondence in the first and second order semantics for modal logic. Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Logic Symposium, edited by Stig Kanger, Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, vol. 82, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Oxford, and American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 110–143. - Arto Salomaa. On some decidability problems concerning developmental languages. Proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Logic Symposium, edited by Stig Kanger, Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, vol. 82, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Oxford, and American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 144–153.

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Thomason
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modal Logic ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Foundations Of Mathematics ◽  
Kit Fine ◽  
North Holland Publishing Company ◽  
The Third ◽  
Inductive Definitions ◽  
Finite Frame ◽  
North Holland Publishing

Essence, Propria and Essentialist Explanation

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-361
Author(s):  
Zeyu Chi
Keyword(s):  
Kit Fine ◽  
Logical Entailment ◽  
Explanatory Relation

Abstract In this paper I propose a notion of propria inspired by Aristotle, on which propria are non-essential, necessary properties explained by the essence of a thing. My proposal differs from the characterization of propria by Kit Fine and Kathrin Koslicki: unlike Fine, the relation of explanation on my account can’t be assimilated to a notion of logical entailment. In disagreement with Koslicki, I suggest that the explanatory relation at issue needs not be necessary. My account of essence is conceptually parsimonious: it illuminates the contribution of essence to explanation without relying on obscure notions such as Aristotelian form or identity.

Fellow Travelers

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-172
Author(s):  
Palle Yourgrau
Keyword(s):  
Derek Parfit ◽  
Kit Fine ◽  
Timothy Williamson ◽  
David Kaplan ◽  
Nonexistent Objects ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Nathan Salmon

A synoptic account of the ontology of death developed in the book is offered, according to which the dead (and the unborn) are seen to be nonexistent objects that possess being but lack existence, and that retain their essential natures as living beings that are now no longer actually alive. This approach has points of contact with the approaches offered by several other philosophers, only one of whom, however, is engaged in the philosophy of death, which helps to confirm the thesis that philosophers of death have failed to take into account the insights achieved in other branches of philosophy. The approach taken by each of these “fellow travelers”—Niall Connolly, Timothy Williamson, Nathan Salmon, Kit Fine, David Kaplan, Derek Parfit—is considered, in turn, and the places where there is agreement, and also disagreement, with the views advanced in this study are delineated.

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