Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical Logic

This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others. Contributing authors address in-depth issues about truthmaker semantics, counterfactual conditionals, grounding, vagueness, non-classical consequence relations, and arbitrary objects, offering critical reflections and novel research contributions. Each chapter is accompanied by an extensive commentary, in which Kit Fine offers detailed responses to the ideas and themes raised by the contributors. The book includes a brief autobiography and exhaustive list of his publications to this date. This book is of interest to logicians of all stripes and to analytic philosophers more generally.

Auteur

Federico L.G. Faroldi is associate professor of philosophy, law and artificial intelligence at the University of Pavia, Italy. He was previously Senior Researcher in Bern (Switzerland), where he directed an Ambizione project (SNSF), Senior Researcher of the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) at Ghent University (Belgium) and Lise Meitner Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in Austria. He has studied or worked in Pisa, Florence, St Andrews, Oxford, ENS Rue d'Ulm (Paris), New York University, University of Southern California and Berkeley. His main interests are deontic logic, hyperintensionality, formal ethics, and the philosophy of AI. His most recent book is Hyperintensionality and Normativity (Springer).

Frederik Van De Putte is assistant professor in philosophy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (Netherlands). He was previously a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) and a postdoctoral researcher of the Flanders Research Foundation(FWO) at Ghent University. He has published in major journals in analytic (formal) philosophy, on a variety of subjects in logic, formal epistemology, philosophy of science, and formal ethics. He serves as editor for Erkenntnis, an International Journal of Scientific Philosophy and was guest editor for several journal issues.