Essays in the metaphysics of modality /
This book is a collection of my essays, dating from 1969, concerning the metaphysics of modality. The first two chapters are a defense of the idea of modality de re against criticisms from William Kneale and W.V. Quine, and an elaboration on the notions of possible worlds and essences. In the third...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction: Matthew Davidson
- 1. De Re et De Dicto
- 2. World and Essence
- 3. Transworld Identity or Worldbound Individuals?
- 4. The Nature of Necessity, Chapter VIII
- 5. Actualism and Possible Worlds
- 6. The Boethian Compromise
- 7. De Essentia
- 8. On Existentialism
- 9. Reply to John L. Pollock
- 10. Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism
- 11. Why Propositions Cannot Be Concrete
- Index
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- D
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- I
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