Publications and Works in Progress Home Page Publications and Works in Progress (Edward N. Zalta) Books Articles Critical Studies and Reviews Entries in Reference Works Extracurricular Refereed Publications Translations Current Research and Online Monographs Books: B1. Abstract Objects: An Introduction to Axiomatic Metaphysics, (Dordrecht: D. Reidel,1983) B2. Intensional Logic and the Metaphysics of Intentionality, (Cambridge, MA: The MITPress/Bradford Books, 1988) Articles: A38. "Bennett and ‘Proxy Actualism’",coauthor: Michael Nelson, Philosophical Studies, forthcoming. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A37. "Reflections on Mathematics," in Philosophy of Mathematics: Five Questions, V.F. Hendricks and H. Leitgeb (eds.), New York, London: Automatic Press/VIP, 2007, pp. 313–328. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A36. "Reflections on the Logic of the Ontological Argument", coauthor: Paul E. Oppenheimer, Studia Neoaristotelica,4/1 (2007): 28–35. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract]A35."Steps Toward a Computational Metaphysics", coauthor: Branden Fitelson, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 36/2 (April 2007): 227–247 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] [Note: Subsequent to publication, the authors discovered some ofthe clauses needed to represent certain propositionsof object theory in Prover9 were omitted. Thispreprint has been corrected.]A34."Deriving and Validating Kripkean Claims Usingthe Theory of Abstract Objects", Noûs, 40/4(December 2006): 591-622. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract]A33."Essence and Modality", Mind, 115/459 (July 2006): 659-693. [Published version freely available online from the publisher in PDF] [Abstract] [Preprint available online in PDF] [Note: In transferring the LaTeX in this preprint to the format used for publication in Mind, a couple of symbols were omitted. This preprint can be used to determine what the missing symbols are.]A32."What is Neologicism?", coauthor: Bernard Linsky, The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 12/1 (2006): 60-99. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract]A31."A Nominalist's Dilemma and its Solution", coauthor: Otávio Bueno, Philosophia Mathematica, 13 (2005): 297-307. [Published version freely available online from the publisher in PDF] [Abstract]A30."In Defense of the Law of Noncontradiction", in The Law ofNoncontradiction: New Philosophical Essays, G. Priest,J.C. Beall, B. Armour-Garb, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press,2004 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract]A29."Frege, Boolos, and Logical Objects", coauthor: David J. Anderson,Journal of Philosophical Logic, 33/1 (February 2004): 1-26 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract]A28."Referring to FictionalCharacters", Dialectica, 57/2 (2003):243-254. [Note: This article was written in 1985. See the abstract inProceedings and Addresses of the American PhilosophicalAssociation, 58/3 (February 1985): 573. It waspublished in German translation in 1987 (see below). The Englishmanuscript was published in 2003.] [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract]A27."A Common Ground and Some SurprisingConnections", Southern Journal of Philosophy, XL(Supplement 2002): 1-25. (Keynote lecture delivered at the Spindel Conferenceentitled Origins: The Common Sources of the Analytic andPhenomenological Traditions, September 2001, University ofMemphis, Philosophy Department) [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A26."Fregean Senses, Modes of Presentation, and Concepts",Philosophical Perspectives, 15 (2001): 333-357 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A25."Neo-Logicism? An Ontological Reduction of Mathematics to Metaphysics", Erkenntnis, 53/1-2 (2000), 219-265 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A24."The Road Between Pretense Theory and Object Theory", in Empty Names, Fiction, and the Puzzles of Non-Existence,A. Everett and T. Hofweber (eds.), Stanford: CSLIPublications, 2000, pp. 117-147 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A23."How to Say Goodbye to the Third Man", coauthor: Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Noûs, 34/2(2000): 165-202 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A22."A (Leibnizian) Theory of Concepts", Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse / LogicalAnalysis and History of Philosophy, 3 (2000): 137-183 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A21."Natural Numbers and Natural Cardinals as Abstract Objects: A Partial Reconstruction of Frege's Grundgesetze in Object Theory", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 28/6 (1999): 619-660 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A20."Mally's Determinates and Husserl's Noemata", in Ernst Mally - Versuch einer Neubewertung, A.~Hieke (ed.),St. Augustin: Academia-Verlag, 1998, pp. 9-28 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A19."A Classically-Based Theory of Impossible Worlds", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 38/4 (Fall 1997):640-660 (Special Issue: Graham Priest, Guest Editor) [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A18."The Modal Object Calculus and its Interpretation", Advances in Intensional Logic, Maarten de Rijke (ed.),Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997, pp. 249--279 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A17."In Defense of the Contingently Non-Concrete", coauthor: Bernard Linsky, Philosophical Studies (SpecialIssue entitled ‘Possibilism and Actualism’), 84/2-3 (December1996): 283-294 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A16."Naturalized Platonism vs. Platonized Naturalism", coauthor: Bernard Linsky, The Journal of Philosophy,XCII/10 (October 1995): 525--555 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A15."Two Related World Views", Noûs, 29/2 (1995): 189--211 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A14."In Defense of the Simplest Quantified Modal Logic", coauthor: Bernard Linsky, Philosophical Perspectives,8 (1994): 431-458 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A13."Twenty-Five Basic Theorems in Situation and World Theory", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 22 (1993):385-428; revised and expanded from `A Theory of Situations', inSituation Theory and Its Applications, J.~Barwise, J.~Gawron,G.~Plotkin, and S.~Tutiya (eds.), Stanford: Center for the Study ofLanguage and Information Publications, 1991, 81-111 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A12."A Philosophical Conception of Propositional Modal Logic", Philosophical Topics, 21/2 (Fall 1993):263--281 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A11."Replies to the Critics", Philosophical Studies, 69/2-3 (March 1993):231-242 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A10."On Mally's Alleged Heresy: A Reply", History and Philosophy of Logic, 13/1 (1992): 59-68 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A9"On the Logic of the Ontological Argument", coauthor: Paul E. Oppenheimer, PhilosophicalPerspectives, 5 (1991): 509-529 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A8."Is Lewis a Meinongian?", coauthor: Bernard Linsky, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 69/4(December 1991): 438-453 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A7."Singular Propositions, Abstract Constituents, and Propositional Attitudes", Themes from Kaplan, J. Almog, J. Perry, and H. Wettstein(eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, 455-478 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A6."Logical and Analytic Truths That Are Not Necessary", The Journal of Philosophy, 85/2 (February1988): 57-74 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] A5."A Comparison of Two Intensional Logics", Linguistics and Philosophy, 11 (February 1988): 59-89 [Not available online] [Abstract] A4."On the Structural Similarities Between Worlds and Times", Philosophical Studies, 51/2 (March 1987): 213-239 [Not available online] [Abstract] A3."Lambert, Mally, and the Principle of Independence", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 25/26 (1985/1986): 447-449 [Not available online] [Abstract] A2."Meinongian Type Theory and Its Applications", Studia Logica, 41/2-3 (1982): 297-307 [Not available online] [Abstract] A1."An Alternative Theory of Nonexistent Objects",coauthor: Alan McMichael, Journal of Philosophical Logic,9 (1980): 297-313 [Not available online] [Abstract]Critical Studies and Reviews: C2. "Mathematics: Truth and Fiction?", coauthor: Mark Colyvan,Critical Study of Mark Balaguer's Platonism and Anti-Platonism inMathematics, in Philosophia Mathematica, 7/3 (1999):336-349 [Preprint available online in PDF] C1. "Review of Daniel Dennett's The Intentional Stance",published in Review of Metaphysics, 43/2 (December 1989): 397-400 Entries in Reference Works R4. "Frege's Logic, Theorem, and Foundations for Arithmetic", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Summer 2002 Edition, URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/entries/sum2002/frege-logic/ R3. "Gottlob Frege", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Summer 2002 Edition, URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2002/entries/frege/ R4. "Fictional Truth, Objects, and Characters", BlackwellCompanion to Metaphysics, J. Kim and E. Sosa (eds.),Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 R1. "Systematic Metaphysics", Handbook on Metaphysics andOntology, H. Burkhardt and B. Smith (eds.), Philosophia Verlag,1991Extracurricular Refereed PublicationsE8. "The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A University-Library Partnership in Support of Scholarly Communications and Open Access," College & Research Libraries News, 67/8 (September 2006): 502–-504, 507.E7. "The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Developed Dynamic Reference Work", (PDF), coauthors: Colin Allen and Uri Nodelman,Metaphilosophy, 33/1–2 (January 2002): 210–228;reprinted in Cyberphilosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy andComputing, James H. Moor and Terrell Ward Bynum, (eds.), Walden, MA:Blackwell, 2002, pp. 201–218.E6. "Lookupd Problems in Apple's Mac OS X Server", coauthor: Colin Allen, Stepwise Server (May 20, 1999).E5. "A Solution to the Problem of Updating Encyclopedias", coauthor: Eric Hammer, Computers and the Humanities,31/1 (1997): 47–60.E4. "Philosophy and the World Wide Web",American PhilosophicalAssociation Newsletter on Computer Use in Philosophy,94/2 (Spring 1995): 29–33.E3. "A Soft Touch", Piano and Keyboard (formerly: The Piano Quarterly), 165 (November/December 1993): 13.E2. "Are Algorithms Patentable?", Notices of the AmericanMathematical Society, 35/6 (July/August 1988):796–799.E1. "Two Estrogen Receptors in Reproductive Tissue, coauthors: RoySmit, Sharon Clarke, and Robert Taylor", Journal of Steroid Biochemistry, 10 (1979): 31–35.TranslationsT5. Czech translation of A9, ‘O Logice OntologickéhoDukazu’, Petr Hromek (trans.), in StudiaNeoaristotelica, 4/1 (2007): 5–27.T4. French translation of A27, ‘Une base commune et quelquesliens surprenants’, Jimmy Plourde (trans.), in Action,Attitudes, et Décision, D. Fisette and D. Vanderveken(eds.), Paris: CNRS, forthcoming.T3. Romanian translation of A22, ‘O Teorie Leibniziana a Conceptelor’, Delia-Ana Serbescu (trans.), in Analysis and Metaphysics, 4/2 (Supplement) (December 2005): 7–75. T2. Chinese translation of A14, ‘ ’,Xing Tao Tao (trans.), inZhexue Yicong [Philosophical Translations], 1(1994): 45–53, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.T1. German translation of A28, ‘Erzählung als Taufe desHelden: Wie man auf fiktionale Objekte Bezug nimmt’, ArnoldGünther (trans.), in Zeitschrift für Semiotik 9/1–2(1987): 85–95. [Note: This translation appeared 16 years prior to thepublication in English.]Current Research and Online Monographs: WARNING: The author retains the copyright to the following materials. They are subject to change on a daily basis without notice. However, feel free to peruse these documents if you are interested in my current research topics. But please do not disseminate or cite these works without first contacting the author.Current Research Papers: A Defense of Actualist Realism (with Otávio Bueno) A Difference Between Relational and Functional Type Theory (with Paul Oppenheimer) A Computationally-Discovered Simplification of the Ontological Argument (with Paul Oppenheimer) I don't yet have written drafts in connection with any thefollowing ongoing research projects; the first five are in a statewhere they can be presented as talks: Ontology Without Tears: A Solution to the Problemof Abstract Objects that Even a Naturalist Could Love An Argument For Logicism Convergence in the Philosophy of Mathematics Frege's Context Principle, Truth, and Reference Online Monographs: Principia Metaphysica, a compilation ofthe theorems of the theory of abstract objects HTML (2 KB) (version of July 10, 1996) PDF/Acrobat (900 KB) (version of February 10, 1999) Basic Concepts in Modal Logic, an intermediate text in modal logic PDF (535K) Copyright © 2008, by Edward N. 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