Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language

Introduction; Alessandro Torza.- Part 1. Logical Constants.- Which Quantifiers are Logical? A Combined Semantical and Inferential Criterion; Solomon Feferman.- Implicit Definitions, Second-Order Quantifiers, and the Robustness of the Logical Operators; Arnold Koslow.- Quantifiers are Logical Constants, but Only Ambiguously; Sun-Joo Shin.- Part 2. Semantics of Natural Language.- Conjunctive, Disjunctive, Negative Objects and Generalized Quantification; Ken Akiba.- Quantifiers and Referential Use; Mario Gómez-Torrente.- Quantification and Logical Form; Andrea Iacona.- Quantification with Intentional and with Intensional Verbs; Frederike Moltmann.- Part III The Carnap-Quine Legacy.- Life on the Range: Quine’s Thesis and Semantic Indeterminacy; G. Aldo Antonelli.- Chalmers, Quantifier Variance and Mathematicians’ Freedom; Sharon Berry.- “There Is an ‘Is’ in There Is”: Meinongian Quantification and Existence; Francesco Berto.- Qualifying Quantifying-in; Bjørn Jespersen.- Carnap, Quine, Quantification and Ontology; Gregory Lavers.- Quantifier Variance, Intensionality, and Metaphysical Merit; David Liebesman.- Part 4. Metaphysics and Ontology.- Making Quantified Truths True; Axel Arturo Barcelό Aspeitia.-Absolute Generality and Semantic Pessimism; J.P. Studd.- Necessarily Maybe. Quantifiers, Modality and Vagueness: Alessandro Torza.- What’s in a (Mental) Picture; Alberto Voltolini.- Part 5. Logical Systems.- Cross-World Identity, Temporal Quantifiers and the Question of Tensed Contents; Tero Tulenheimo.- What’s So Bad about Second-Order Logic?; Jason Turner.- ∀ and ω; Elia Zardini.