The metaphysics and mathematics of arbitrary objects
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 256095614
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107039414
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is a major philosophical study of the status of "arbitrary objects", the first book to appear on this topic for many years. The book stands at the intersection of analytic metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. The main aims of the book are to improve upon the theory of arbitrary objects developed by Kit Fine in the 1980s, and to put the improved theory to work to illuminate a number of further topics, including the status of quantified modal logic, structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics, and the nature of random variables in probability theory.
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- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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