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Modality (Paperback)
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Modality (Paperback)
Series: Central Problems of Philosophy
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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.
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