Philosophy
Research Postgraduate students
Stephan Kraemer
PhD student
Ontological Commitment and Second-Order Quantification
In my Ph.D. thesis I try to defend the view that second-order quantification is coherent, and irreducible and does not carry ontological commitment to properties, functions, sets or any indeed special kind of entity.
More generally, I am interested in a range of fundamental questions about semantic theorizing which concern metaphysics and logic as well as the philosophy of language more narrowly construed. I also have an interest in early analytic philosophy, specifically the works of Bernard Bolzano and Gottlob Frege.