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Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195103762
This volume collects the most important articles on the metaphysics of modality by philosopher Alvin Plantinga. The focus is on such fundamental issues in metaphysics as the nature of abstract objects.
Author : Peter van Inwagen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521795486
This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagen's essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in their field. They range widely across such topics as Quine's philosophy of quantification, the ontology of fiction, the part-whole relation, the theory of 'temporal parts', and human knowledge of modal truths. In addition, van Inwagen considers the question as to whether the psychological continuity theory of personal identity is compatible with materialism, and defends the thesis that possible states of affairs are abstract objects, in opposition to David Lewis's 'extreme modal realism'. A specially-written introduction completes the collection, which will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in metaphysics.
Author : Phillip Bricker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191664250
Drawing together his work from four decades, Phillip Bricker provides a comprehensive account of modal reality - the realm of possible worlds - from a Humean perspective, with excursions into neighboring topics in metaphysics. Many of the chapters in this volume focus on aspects of David Lewis's metaphysics and his defence of modal realism, sometimes further developing and defending Lewis's views, sometimes deviating from them in substantial ways. The volume is presented in four parts: part one sketches an account of reality as a whole, both the mathematical and the modal, defending a form of plenitudinous realism; part two presents and defends a realist theory of concrete possible worlds with an absolute ontological distinction between the actual and the merely possible; part three presents and defends a Humean account of modal plenitude, formulating and endorsing principles that guarantee a plenitude of recombination, of possible structures, and of alien contents; and part four applies the Humean account to truthmaking, mereology, spacetime, and quantities. An uncompromising Humean, Bricker shows that holding fast to Humean strictures leads to views that differ in radical ways from those prevalent among contemporary metaphysicians.
Author : Juhani Yli-Vakkuri,Mark McCullagh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351730051
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.
Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190282936
Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential subject. Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena? Are there possible but non-actual objects? Can objects that do not exist exemplify properties? Plantinga gives thorough and penetrating answers to all of these questions and many others. This volume contains some of the best work in metaphysics from the past 30 years, and will remain a source of critical contention and keen interest among philosophers of metaphysics and philosophical logic for years to come.
Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 0199833575
This volume collects the most important articles on the metaphysics of modality by philosopher Alvin Plantinga. The focus is on such fundamental issues in metaphysics as the nature of abstract objects.
Author : Mark Sinclair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9780198786436
The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history. The ultimate purpose of this historical approach is to contextualise and even to offer some alternatives to dominant positions within the contemporary philosophy of modality. Hence the volume contains not only new scholarship on the early-modern doctrines of Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff and Immanuel Kant, but also work relating to less familiar nineteenth-century thinkers such as Alexius Meinong and Jan Lukasiewicz, together with essays on celebrated nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers such as G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger and Bertrand Russell, whose modal doctrines have not previously garnered the attention they deserve. The volume thus covers a variety of traditions, and its historical range extends to the end of the twentieth century, addressing the legacy of W. V. Quine's critique of modality within recent analytic philosophy.
Author : Robert C. Stalnaker,Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Robert C Stalnaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199251483
Robert Stalnaker draws together in this volume the extent of his work in metaphysics. The central theme is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The essays presented reflect on the nature of metaphysics, with two of the essays featured being published for the first time.
Author : Bob Hale,Aviv Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199565818
"The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions - are they objective features of mind-independent reality? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers."--[Source inconnue].
Author : Michael J. Loux
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 0801491789
This well-chosen collection of fifteen important essays in the fields of philosophical logic and metaphysics addresses questions relating to the nature and status of possible worlds.
Author : Graeme Forbes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008988795
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.
Author : John P. Burgess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139470544
John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through counter-criticism of their nominalist, intuitionist, relevantist, and other critics. This selection of his essays, which spans twenty-five years, addresses key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation. An introduction sets the essays in context and offers a retrospective appraisal of their aims. The volume will be of interest to a wide range of readers across philosophy of mathematics, logic, and philosophy of language.
Author : Andrea Borghini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472521941
A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Modality examines the eight main contemporary theories of possibility behind a central metaphysical topic. Covering modal skepticism, modal expressivism, modalism, modal realism, ersatzism, modal fictionalism, modal agnosticism, and the new modal actualism, this comprehensive introduction to modality places contemporary debates in an historical context. Beginning with a historical overview, Andrea Borghini discusses Parmenides and Zeno; looks at how central Medieval authors such as Aquinas, and Buridan prepared the ground for the Early Modern radical views of Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume and discusses advancements in semantics in the later-half of the twentieth century a resulted in the rise of modal metaphysics, the branch characterizing the past few decades of philosophical reflection. Framing the debate according to three main perspectives - logical, epistemic, metaphysical- Borghini provides the basic concepts and terms required to discuss modality. With suggestions of further reading and end-of-chapter study questions, A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Modality is an up-to-date resource for students working in contemporary metaphysics seeking a better understanding of this crucial topic.
Author : Ruth Barcan Marcus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language and logic
ISBN : 0199833419
These papers cover important themes such as extensionality, the necessity of identity, the conception of proper names as 'tags', essentialism, substitutional quantification, and possibilia and possible worlds. What emerges from them is a robust defence of quantified modal logic in the light of a host of objections, particularly from Quine.
Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199278701
In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.
