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• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 27 February 2020

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

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 06 December 2012

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

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 18 January 2018

This title was first published in 2001. Modality and Anti-Metaphysics critically examines the most prominent approaches to modality among analytic philosophers in the twentieth century, including essentialism. Defending both the project

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 18 December 2014

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 "

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 23 May 1986

Analytic philosophy has recently demonstrated a revived interest in metaphysical problems about possibility and necessity. Graeme Forbes here provides a careful description of the logical background of recent work in

• Publisher : CUP Archive
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• Release Date : 09 December 1976

A study of various central and connected topics in philosophical logic and the theory of meaning. There are important sections on the relation between linguistic and abstract entities, on necessity

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 23 May 2024

The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 27 March 2003

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

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 27 November 2008

Thoughts is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo which together constitute a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind. Yablo offers penetrating discussions of such

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
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• Release Date : 23 May 1979

This well-chosen collection of fifteen important essays in the fields of philosophical logic and metaphysics addresses questions relating to the nature and status of possible worlds.