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advanced modal metaphysics textbook
alien
Alien Entities
Alien Properties
Atomic Sentences
Author_Joseph Melia
calculus
Category=QD
Category=QDTK
Category=QDTL
Compositional Semantics
conceptual analysis
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eq_isMigrated=2
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Existential Sentence
Extreme Realist
Incredulous Stare
Kripke semantics
Lewis's Theory
logic
Mereological Sums
metaphysical necessity
modal epistemology
Modal Logic
Modal Notions
Modal Theses
Non-modal Sentence
Peano Arithmetic
philosophy of language
possible worlds theory
predicate
Predicate Calculus
properties
Quantified Modal Logic
Quine's Argument
Referential Opacity
semantics
sentences
Set Theoretic Constructions
Subscripted Operators
Trans-world Identity
Transworld Identity
Truth Functional Connectives
Vice Versa
world
worlds
Worlds Semantics
Product details
- ISBN 9781902683478
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semetics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de re/de dicto" distinction, conventionalist and conceptualist theories of modality and some of the key problems in modality, particularly Quine's criticisms. It then moves on to explain how possible worlds provide a solution to many of the problems in modality and how possible worlds themselves have been used to analyse notions outside modality such as properties and propositions. Possible worlds introduce problems of their own and the book argues that to make progress with these problems a theory of possible worlds is required. The pros and cons of various theories of possible worlds are then examined in turn, including those of Lewis, Kripke, Adams, Stalnaker and Plantinga.
Joseph Melia is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds.
