This volume brings together a selection of the most
philosophically significant papers of Arthur Pap. As Sanford Shieh
explains in the Introduction to this volume, Pap s work played an
important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This
role goes beyond the merely historical fact that Pap s views of
dispositional and modal concepts were influential. As a sympathetic
critic of logical empiricism, Pap, like Quine, saw a deep tension
in logical empiricism at its very best in the work of Carnap. But
Pap s critique of Carnap is quite different from Quine s, and
represents the discovery of limits beyond which empiricism cannot
go, where there lies nothing other than intuitive knowledge of
logic itself. Pap s arguments for this intuitive knowledge
anticipate Etchemendy s recent critique of the model-theoretic
account of logical consequence. Pap s work also anticipates
prominent developments in the contemporary neo-Fregean philosophy
of mathematics championed by Wright and Hale. Finally, Pap s major
philosophical preoccupation, the concepts of necessity and
possibility, provides distinctive solutions and perspectives on
issues of contemporary concern in the metaphysics of modality. In
particular, Pap s account of modality allows us to see the
significance of Kripke s well-known arguments on necessity and
apriority in a new light.
This volume will be of interest to all researchers in the
philosophical history of the analytic tradition, in philosophy of
logic, philosophy of mathematics, and contemporary analytic
metaphysics."
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