Identity And Modality

Author : Fraser MacBride
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191536588

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Identity and Modality by Fraser MacBride Pdf

The papers in this volume address fundamental, and interrelated, philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that have not only been pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century, but remain a key focus of metaphysical debate in the twenty-first. How are we to understand the concepts of necessity and possibility? Is chance a basic ingredient of reality? How are we to make sense of claims about personal identity? Do numbers require distinctive identity criteria? Does the capacity to identify an object presuppose an ability to bring it under a sortal concept? Rather than presenting a single, partisan perspective, Identity and Modality enriches our understanding of identity and modality by bringing together papers written by leading researchers working in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics. The resulting variety of perspectives correspondingly reflects both the breadth and depth of contemporary theorizing about identity and modality, each paper addressing a particular issue and advancing our knowledge of the area. This volume will provide essential reading for graduate students in the subject and professional philosophers.

Author : Peter Van Inwagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9521795484

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Ontology, Identity, and Modality by Peter Van Inwagen Pdf

Author : Peter van Inwagen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521795486

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Ontology, Identity, and Modality by Peter van Inwagen Pdf

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 : Billy Adamsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031377341

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Work Identity by Billy Adamsen Pdf

At present, 80% of the employees are no longer engaged in their work and capable of performing, while 44% are experiencing work related stress and getting sick from working. A significant increase in time spent on interpretation at work trying to understand what managers and colleagues are saying has been observed too. This book offers a critical view on vocational inventory tests and the development of the work language and the use of it describing work identity. As well as a neurophilosophical perspective on self and work identity, this book provides a plausible neurophilosophical explanation for the negative impact of losing work identity on our work behavior, well-being, and success. Furthermore, the author introduces the innovative Work Identity Pro, the first work identity test to independently measure work identity. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of human resources management, organisation studies and organisational psychology. It will also be of interest to managers and those with an interest in work identity, behaviour and well-being.

Author : Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Diana Raffman,Nicholas Asher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521440823

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Modality, Morality and Belief by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Diana Raffman,Nicholas Asher Pdf

Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop new positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism, and the explantion of actions by beliefs. This state of the art collection honors one of the most rigorous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.

Author : Judith Thomson,Alex Byrne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199282807

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Content and Modality by Judith Thomson,Alex Byrne Pdf

Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major presence in contemporary philosophy, in honour of whom the volume is published. It also contains a substantial new essay in whichStalnaker replies to his critics, and sets out his current views on the topics discussed.Contributors: Richard Heck, Frank Jackson, William Lycan, Vann McGee, John Perry, Paul Pietroski, Sydney Shoemaker, Scott Soames, Daniel Stoljar, Timothy Williamson, and Stephen Yablo.

Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191535321

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Modality and Tense by Kit Fine Pdf

Kit Fine has since the 1970s been one of the leading contributors to work at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. This is his eagerly-awaited first book in the area. It draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense. These puzzling aspects of the way the world is have been the focus of considerable philosophical attention in recent decades. Fine gives here the definitive exposition and defence of certain positions for which he is well known: the intelligibility of modality de re; the primitiveness of the modal; and the primacy of the actual over the possible. But the book also argues for several positions that are not so familiar: the existence of distinctive forms of natural and normative necessity, not reducible to any form of metaphysical necessity; the need to make a distinction between the worldly and the unworldly, analogous to the distinction between the tensed and the tenseless; and the viability of a non-standard form of realism about tense, which recognizes the tensed character of reality without conceding that there is any privileged standpoint from which it is to be viewed. Modality and Tense covers a wide range of topics from many different areas: the possible-worlds analysis of counterfactuals; the compatibility of special relativity with presentism; the implications of ethical naturalism; and the nature of first-personal experience. A helpful introduction orients the reader and offers a way into some of the most original work in contemporary philosophy.

Author : Mircea Dumitru
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199652624

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Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality by Mircea Dumitru Pdf

This is the first book on the provocative and innovative contributions to philosophy of language, metaphysics, the philosophy of mathematics, and logic made by Kit Fine, one of the world's foremost philosophers. Topics covered include meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality.

Author : Anand Jayprakash Vaidya,Duško Prelević
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000840438

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Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology by Anand Jayprakash Vaidya,Duško Prelević Pdf

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy. Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally.

Author : British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853592072

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Language and Culture by British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting Pdf

These papers from the 24th Annual Meeting of BAAL have been selected for the diversity of perspective which they offer on the theme of language and culture, and on the way in which they reflect current thinking on the interdependence of language use and situational context.

Author : Otávio Bueno,Scott A. Shalkowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317585275

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The Routledge Handbook of Modality by Otávio Bueno,Scott A. Shalkowski Pdf

Modality - the question of what is possible and what is necessary - is a fundamental area of philosophy and philosophical research. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven clear parts: worlds and modality essentialism, ontological dependence, and modality modal anti-realism epistemology of modality modality in science modality in logic and mathematics modality in the history of philosophy. Within these sections the central issues, debates and problems are examined, including possible worlds, essentialism, counterfactuals, ontological dependence, modal fictionalism, deflationism, the integration challenge, conceivability, a priori knowledge, laws of nature, natural kinds, and logical necessity. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. It will also be very useful for those in related fields in philosophy such as philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190282936

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Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

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 : Andy Egan,Brian Weatherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191618635

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Epistemic Modality by Andy Egan,Brian Weatherson Pdf

There is a lot that we don't know. That means that there are a lot of possibilities that are, epistemically speaking, open. For instance, we don't know whether it rained in Seattle yesterday. So, for us at least, there is an epistemic possibility where it rained in Seattle yesterday, and one where it did not. What are these epistemic possibilities? They do not match up with metaphysical possibilities - there are various cases where something is epistemically possible but not metaphysically possible, and vice versa. How do we understand the semantics of statements of epistemic modality? The ten new essays in this volume explore various answers to these questions, including those offered by contextualism, relativism, and expressivism.

Author : W.G. Lycan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401109369

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Modality and Meaning by W.G. Lycan Pdf

Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored. Part II takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. There are skeptical analyses of analyticity and the notion of a logical constant; and an `infinite polysemy' thesis is defended. The book will be of particular interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics.

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438448855

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Ultimates by Robert Cummings Neville Pdf

Finalist for the 2015 John N. Findlay Award in Metaphysics presented by the Metaphysical Society of America Robert Cummings Neville offers a new theology of the ultimate and a new theory of religion to back it up. The first volume in a trilogy, this book and companion volumes treating existence and religion advance a systematic philosophical theology to address first-order questions found in the array of Axial Age religions. Questions generally arising in the major religious traditions are interrogated with a dialectic of philosophical approaches. This volume begins the project with a consideration of ultimacy defined philosophically and illustrated in a wide range of traditions. To the question of how or why there is something rather than nothing, Neville answers with an elaborate hypothesis about the ontological act of creation that creates all determinate things as related to but different from one another. The result is the claim that there are five ultimates: the ontological act, the form of determinate things, the components of determinate things, the existential location of determinate things relative to one another, and the value-identity of ultimate things, giving rise to five universal religious problematics of ultimacy respectively: the question of existence, the ground of obligation, the quest for wholeness, engaging others, and finding meaning. Neville analyzes what can and cannot be known about each of these ultimates. Readers will find Neville's theory of religion and philosophy a bold one, running counter to dominant trends while richly informed by a long and fruitful engagement with theology, philosophy, and religion, East and West.