Operators vs Quantifiers

In this book, seven experts in logic and semantics examine reasons for using the intensional operator approach over the variable binding approach and vice versa. This book was originally published as a special issue of Inquiry.

Max Kölbel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. David Rey is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Universidad del Valle, Colombia.

Introduction 1. Are quantifiers intensional operators? 2. Binding bound variables in epistemic contexts 3. Operators vs. quantifiers: the view from linguistics 4. Confessions of a schmentencite: towards an explicit semantics 5. Positing covert variables and the quantifier theory of tense 6. Looking backwards in type logic