Beschreibung:
Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics. After introducing and explaining the major approaches to hyperintensionality found in the literature, the book tackles its systematic connections to normativity and offers some contributions to the current debates.
Introduction.- Intensional Logic and Semantics for Deontic Modals.- A Primer on Hyperintensionality.- Co- Hyperintensionality.- Deontic Modals are Hyperintensional.- Truth Maker Sematics for Deontic Modals.- Reasons: Logic and Hyperintensionality.- The scale of Normative Reasons.- Normative Properties and Higher-Order Supervenience.