Salvatore Florio

• Florio, Salvatore & Linnebo, Øystein (2024). Introduction to Constructional Ontology. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 3882. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In constructional ontology, entities emerge by construction, that is, from the application of constructors to objects. We explore this approach to ontology, focusing on three modules: the constructors, the inputs to the constructors, and the constructional process. Our aim is to identify and assess some key theoretical choices arising in an ontology of this kind.

• Florio, Salvatore (2023). On Type Distinctions and Expressivity. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. ISSN 0066-7374. s. 150–172. doi: 10.1093/arisoc/aoad007. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract Quine maintained that philosophical and scientific theorizing should be conducted in an untyped language, which has just one style of variables and quantifiers. By contrast, typed languages, such as those advocated by Frege and Russell, include multiple styles of variables and matching kinds of quantification. Which form should our theories take? In this article, I argue that expressivity does not favour typed languages over untyped ones.

• Florio, Salvatore & Jones, Nicholas K. (2023). Two conceptions of absolute generality. Philosophical Studies. ISSN 0031-8116. doi: 10.1007/s11098-022-01908-0. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract What is absolutely unrestricted quantification? We distinguish two theoretical roles and identify two conceptions of absolute generality: maximally strong generality and maximally inclusive generality. We also distinguish two corresponding kinds of absolute domain. A maximally strong domain contains every potential counterexample to a generalisation. A maximally inclusive domain is such that no domain extends it. We argue that both conceptions of absolute generality are legitimate and investigate the relations between them. Although these conceptions coincide in standard settings, we show how they diverge under more complex assumptions about the structure of meaningful predication, such as cumulative type theory. We conclude by arguing that maximally strong generality is the more theoretically valuable conception.

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• Linnebo, Øystein & Florio, Salvatore (2021). The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198791522. 336 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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