Higher-Order Metaphysics

Peter Fritz, Professor of Philosophy, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Nicholas K. Jones, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Peter Fritz is Professor of Philosophy at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, and at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. He studied philosophy and logic at the Universities of Konstanz, Amsterdam, and Oxford, and works on logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.


Nicholas K. Jones is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, as well as Official Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St John's College, Oxford. He studied philosophy at the University of Leeds before receiving his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. His research lies at the intersection of metaphysics with the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of language.

Part One: Introduction1. Higher-Order Metaphysics: An Introduction, Peter Fritz and Nicholas K. Jones2. A Case for Higher-Order Metaphysics, Andrew Bacon3. Higher-order logic as metaphysics, Jeremy GoodmanPart Two: Pure4. Classicism, Andrew Bacon and Cian Dorr5. Reality as tall and ne, not at and coarse, �ystein Linnebo6. Constructive Type Theory, An Appetizer, Laura CrosillaPart Three: Applied7. A fictionalist theory of universals, Tim Button and Robert Trueman8. Symmetry and Hybrid Contingentism, Maegan Fairchild9. Higher-order metaphysics and propositional attitudes, Harvey LedermanPart Four: History10. Higher-Order Metaphysics in Frege and Russell, Kevin C. Klement11. Against Second-Order Logic: Quine and Beyond, Fraser MacBride12. Ordinary Language meets Higher-Order Quantication, Adriane RiniPart Five: Discussion13. Pure Logic and Higher-order Metaphysics, Christopher Menzel14. Menzel on Pure Logic and Higher-Order Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson15. Against Second-Order Primitivism, Bryan Pickel16. Pickel against Second-Order Primitivism, Timothy Williamson17. Why I am not an Absolutist (or a First-Orderist), Agustín Rayo