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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Plantinga, Alvin
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Davidson, Matthew, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Modality (Logic)
Metaphysics.
Metaphysics
Modalité (Logique)
Métaphysique.
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Metafysica.
Modaliteit.
Modale logica.
Online Access:Texto completo
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
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
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  • P
  • Q
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