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Modal Logic as Metaphysics
Author | : Timothy Williamson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199552078 |
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Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resources of quantified modal logic. Contrary to the widespread assumption that logic and metaphysics are disjoint, he argues that modal logic provides a structural core for metaphysics.
Williamson on Modality
Author | : Juhani Yli-Vakkuri,Mark McCullagh |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781351730044 |
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Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). This book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson’s work on metaphysical modality, as well as replies by Williamson to each essay. In addition, it contains an original essay by Williamson, ‘Modal science,’ concerning the role of modal claims in natural science. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Modality
Author | : Bob Hale,Aviv Hoffmann |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2010-03-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191572296 |
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The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions—are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the papers address fundamental questions concerning realism and anti-realism about modality, the nature and basis of facts about what is possible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence and to counterfactual reasoning. The general introduction locates the individual contributions in the wider context of the contemporary discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of modality.
The World Time Parallel
Author | : A. A. Rini,M. J. Cresswell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2012-01-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107017474 |
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The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.
The Metaphysics of Modality
Author | : Graeme Forbes |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008988795 |
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Analytic philosophy has recently demonstrated a revived interest in metaphysical problems about possibility and necessity. Graeme Forbes here provides a careful description of the logical background of recent work in this area for those who may be unfamiliar with it, moving on to d discuss the distinction between modality de re and modality de dicto and the ontological commitments of possible worlds semantics. In addition, Forbes offers a unified theory of the essential properties of sets, organisms, artefacts, substances, and events, based on the doctrine that identity facts must be intrinsically grounded, and analyzes and rejects apparent counterexamples to this doctrine.
Modal Logic for Philosophers
Author | : James W. Garson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2006-08-14 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780521682299 |
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This 2006 book provides an accessible, yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.
Modality
Author | : Joseph Melia |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781317489672 |
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This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semetics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de re/de dicto" distinction, conventionalist and conceptualist theories of modality and some of the key problems in modality, particularly Quine's criticisms. It then moves on to explain how possible worlds provide a solution to many of the problems in modality and how possible worlds themselves have been used to analyse notions outside modality such as properties and propositions. Possible worlds introduce problems of their own and the book argues that to make progress with these problems a theory of possible worlds is required. The pros and cons of various theories of possible worlds are then examined in turn, including those of Lewis, Kripke, Adams, Stalnaker and Plantinga.
Williamson on Modality
Author | : Juhani Yli-Vakkuri,Mark McCullagh |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781351730051 |
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Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). This book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson’s work on metaphysical modality, as well as replies by Williamson to each essay. In addition, it contains an original essay by Williamson, ‘Modal science,’ concerning the role of modal claims in natural science. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.