Edward Zalta
Sr. Research Scholar
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Bio
Dr. Edward N. Zalta is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He obtained an honors B.A. from Rice University in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst in 1981. His research specialties include metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mathematics, computational metaphysics, philosophical and philosophy of logic, and intensional logic, among others. Zalta has published two books (*Abstract Objects: An Introduction to Axiomatic Metaphysics*, D. Reidel, 1983; and *Intensional Logic and the Metaphysics of Intentionality*, MIT Press, 1988), as well as articles in the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, the Journal of Philosophical Logic, Noûs, and elsewhere. He has taught courses and lectured at universities around the world and is the recipient of the K. Jon Barwise Prize (2016, awarded by the American Philosophical Association, Committee on Computing and Philosophy) and the Covey Award (2009, awarded by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy). Zalta also designed the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy <http://plato.stanford.edu/> and now serves as its Principal Editor. For further information, see <http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html>.
All Publications
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Number Theory and Infinity Without Mathematics
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
2024
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10992-024-09762-7
View details for Web of Science ID 001286396800001
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The Metaphysics of Routley Star
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF LOGIC
2024; 21 (4)
View details for Web of Science ID 001308591100001
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Mathematical Pluralism
NOUS
2023
View details for DOI 10.1111/nous.12451
View details for Web of Science ID 000950266100001
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On Anselm's Ontological Argument in Proslogion II
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY & LOGICAL ANALYSIS
2022; 25 (2): 327-351
View details for DOI 10.30965/26664275-BJA10054
View details for Web of Science ID 000908490200004
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Revisiting the 'Wrong Kind of Object' Problem
ORGANON F
2021; 28 (1): 168–97
View details for DOI 10.31577/orgf.2021.28108
View details for Web of Science ID 000626637400008
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Unifying Three Notions of Concepts
THEORIA-A SWEDISH JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2021; 87 (1): 13–30
View details for DOI 10.1111/theo.12187
View details for Web of Science ID 000621397000003
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MECHANIZING PRINCIPIA LOGICO-METAPHYSICA IN FUNCTIONAL TYPE-THEORY
REVIEW OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC
2020; 13 (1): 206–18
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1755020319000297
View details for Web of Science ID 000524934000007
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Mathematical descriptions
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
2019; 176 (2): 473–81
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11098-017-1024-0
View details for Web of Science ID 000454895300009
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Computer Science and Metaphysics: A Cross-Fertilization
OPEN PHILOSOPHY
2019; 2 (1): 230–51
View details for DOI 10.1515/opphil-2019-0015
View details for Web of Science ID 000592497900019
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Object Theory and Modal Meinongianism
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2017; 95 (4): 761–78
View details for DOI 10.1080/00048402.2016.1260609
View details for Web of Science ID 000411515000010
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Automating Leibniz's Theory of Concepts
Automated Deduction -- CADE 25: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Automated Deduction
Springer. 2015: 73–97
View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21401-6_4
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Worlds and Propositions Set Free
ERKENNTNIS
2014; 79 (4): 797-820
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10670-013-9565-x
View details for Web of Science ID 000342439700004
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The Fundamental Theorem of World Theory
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
2014; 43 (2-3): 333-363
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10992-012-9265-z
View details for Web of Science ID 000338130900006
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Foundations for Mathematical Structuralism
MIND
2014; 123 (489): 39-78
View details for DOI 10.1093/mind/fzu003
View details for Web of Science ID 000342720300002
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The Tarski T-Schema is a tautology (literally)
ANALYSIS
2014; 74 (1): 5–11
View details for DOI 10.1093/analys/ant099
View details for Web of Science ID 000339551800002
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A defense of contingent logical truths
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
2012; 157 (1): 153-162
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11098-010-9624-y
View details for Web of Science ID 000297496800010
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Relations Versus Functions at the Foundations of Logic: Type-Theoretic Considerations
JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND COMPUTATION
2011; 21 (2): 351-374
View details for DOI 10.1093/logcom/exq017
View details for Web of Science ID 000289165700010
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A Computationally-Discovered Simplification of the Ontological Argument
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2011; 89 (2): 333-349
View details for DOI 10.1080/00048401003674482
View details for Web of Science ID 000289572400010
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Bennett and "proxy actualism"
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
2009; 142 (2): 277-292
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11098-007-9186-9
View details for Web of Science ID 000261958800008
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Steps toward a computational metaphysics
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
2007; 36 (2): 227-247
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10992-006-9038-7
View details for Web of Science ID 000245375600004
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Deriving and validating Kripkean claims using the theory of abstract objects
NOUS
2006; 40 (4): 591-622
View details for Web of Science ID 000241926400001
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Essence and modality
MIND
2006; 115 (459): 659-693
View details for DOI 10.1093/mind/fzl659
View details for Web of Science ID 000239761400006
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What is neologicism?
BULLETIN OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC
2006; 12 (1): 60-99
View details for Web of Science ID 000236047600003
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A Nominalist's Dilemma and its Solution
Philosophia Mathematica
2005; 13
View details for DOI 10.1093/philmat/nki033
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Frege, Boolos, and logical objects
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
2004; 33 (1): 1-26
View details for Web of Science ID 000220869900001
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Referring to fictional characters
DIALECTICA
2003; 57 (2): 243-254
View details for Web of Science ID 000188355300012
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The 'Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy' - A developed dynamic reference work
METAPHILOSOPHY
2002; 33 (1-2): 210-228
View details for Web of Science ID 000175936200014
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Fregean senses, modes of presentation, and concepts
NOUS
2001: 335-359
View details for Web of Science ID 000172970900015
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A common ground and some surprising connections
20th Annual Spindel Conference
UNIV MEMPHIS PRESS. 2001: 1–25
View details for Web of Science ID 000177552000001
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How to say goodbye to the Third Man (Plato, 'Parmenides')
NOUS
2000; 34 (2): 165-202
View details for Web of Science ID 000167137600001
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Neo-logicism - An ontological reduction of mathematics to metaphysics
ERKENNTNIS
2000; 53 (1-2): 219-265
View details for Web of Science ID 000165327500011
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Natural numbers and natural cardinals as abstract objects: A partial reconstruction of Frege's Grundgesetze in object theory
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
1999; 28 (6): 619-660
View details for Web of Science ID 000084537900005
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A solution to the problem of updating encyclopedias
COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
1997; 31 (1): 47-60
View details for Web of Science ID 000071604300005
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In defense of the contingently nonconcrete
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
1996; 84 (2-3): 283-294
View details for Web of Science ID A1996WD28900009
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Naturalized Platonism versus platonized naturalism
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
1995; 92 (10): 525-555
View details for Web of Science ID 000171895400002
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2 (RELATED) WORLD-VIEWS + GUISE-THEORY AND OBJECT-THEORY
NOUS
1995; 29 (2): 189-211
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25 BASIC THEOREMS IN SITUATION AND WORLD THEORY
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
1993; 22 (4): 385-428
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REPLIES TO THE CRITICS + MENZEL, DEUTSCH, ANDERSON, OBJECT THEORY, INTENSIONAL LOGIC, SENSE AND SUBSTITUTIVITY
Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American-Philosophical-Association
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL. 1993: 231–42
View details for Web of Science ID A1993KR41800012
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ON MALLY ALLEGED HERESY - A REPLY
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC
1992; 13 (1): 59-68
View details for Web of Science ID A1992GZ57400004
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IS LEWIS A MEINONGIAN
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
1991; 69 (4): 438-453
View details for Web of Science ID A1991GR92500004
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LOGICAL AND ANALYTIC TRUTHS THAT ARE NOT NECESSARY
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
1988; 85 (2): 57-74
View details for Web of Science ID A1988M055500001
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A COMPARISON OF 2 INTENSIONAL LOGICS
LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
1988; 11 (1): 59-89
View details for Web of Science ID A1988M401700003
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ON THE STRUCTURAL SIMILARITIES BETWEEN WORLDS AND TIMES
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
1987; 51 (2): 213-239
View details for Web of Science ID A1987G730400004
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STORYTELLING AS BAPTISM OF THE HERO - HOW ONE REFERS TO FICTIONAL OBJECTS
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SEMIOTIK
1987; 9 (1-2): 85-95
View details for Web of Science ID A1987H463400007