Chapter Ruth Barcan Marcus on Believing Without a Language

• Main Author: Proust, Joëlle (auth)
• Other Authors: Frauchiger, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Subjects: Philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy: logic; Ethics & moral philosophy; Modal logic; quantification; rationality
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This paper surveys Ruth Marcus' many contributions to modal logic and its interpretation, starting with her pioneer work on quantified modal logic and ending with the controversies concerning the origin of the idea of rigid reference and other basic ideas in the so-called "New theory of re...