E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten
Nolan Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-72814-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-135-72814-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds. Areas investigated include the theories of the nature of possible worlds, general questions about metaphysical analysis and questions about the direction of dependence between what is necessary or possible and what could be.
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Introduction: General Approach
1 Possible Worlds
2. Towards Explaining the Connection Between Modality and Possible Worlds
3. Expressive Completeness Without Possible Worlds: The Hazen Cases
4. Problems for "Strong" Modal Fictionalism
5. Representing Aliens
6. Recombination Unbound
7. A Reduction of Classes to Possible Worlds
Recapitulation
Appendix 1: Proofs of Chapter 7
Appendix 2: Trouble for Lewis' "Main Thesis"
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