Everything about Extensionalism

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ExtensionalismA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Universalism doesn’t entail extensionalismInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Understanding MediaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Universalism entails ExtensionalismCited 35 times
5. Go sideways: Analytic–synthetic distinctionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Rudolf CarnapA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Universalism entails Extensionalism

  A. C. Varzi · 2009 · Analysis · 35 citations

• Does Universalism Entail Extensionalism?

  A. J. Cotnoir · 2014 · Noûs · 21 citations

• Universalism and Extensionalism: A reply to Varzi

  M. C. Rea · 2010 · Analysis · 13 citations

• Extensionalism in Context

  Nimrod Bar-Am · 2011 · Philosophy of the Social Sciences · 5 citations

• The Myth of Reductive Extensionalism

  Itay Shani · 2007 · Axiomathes · 5 citations

• Universalism and extensionalism revisited

  Claudio Calosi, Alessandro Giordani · 2023 · Synthese · 4 citations

• Extensionalism and Scientific Theory in Quine’s Philosophy

  Saloua Chatti · 2011 · International Studies in the Philosophy of Science · 3 citations

• Explaining Temporal Phenomenology: Hume’s Extensionalism and Kant’s Apriorism

  Adrian Bardon · 2019 · Kant-Studien · 3 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Universalism doesn’t entail extensionalism

  Roberto Loss · 2022 · Analysis · 2 citations

• Frege’s semantics and the dissolution of the notion of Sense: the foundation of modern extensionalism and semantic skepticism

  Lucas Vollet · 2022 · Academia Letters · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Understanding MediaMarshall McLuhan, Marshal McLuhan · 1964
• 📕Nonlinear flap-lag-extensional vibrations of rotating, pretwisted, preconed beams including Coriolis effectsK. B Subrahmanyam · 1985
• 📕Extensional TectonicsIbrahim Cemen, Elizabeth J. Catlos · 2023
• 📕Magmatism in Extensional Structural SettingsA. B. Kampunzu · 1991
• Extensional Constructs in Intensional Type TheoryMartin Hofmann · 1997
• Extensional tectonicsR. E. Holdsworth, J. P. Turner · 2002
• Extensional tectonicsR. E. Holdsworth, J. P. Turner · 2002
• 📕Extensional Tectonics and Basin FormationIbrahim Cemen · 2021

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