Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems.

Abstract

Non-Singular Reference: Some Preliminaries.- Some Bits and Pieces.- Some Remarks about Mass Nouns and Plurality.- The Indeterminacy of Mass Predication.- Sharvy on Mass Predication.- Four Ontologies.- On the Adequacy of a Type Ontology.- Theories of Matter.- On the Usefulness of Quantities.- An Analysis of Mass Terms and Amount Terms.- Afterthoughts on Mass Terms.- The Proper Treatment of Mass Terms in English.- Amounts and Measures of Amount.- Mass Terms, Count Nouns, and Change.- Stuff and Things.- Quantity and Quantification.- Sameness and Individuation.- Ensembles and the Formal Semantic Properties of Mass Terms.- Predication and Matter.- A Bibliography of Recent Work on Mass Terms.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.