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Modal Logic as Metaphysics (Paperback)
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Modal Logic as Metaphysics (Paperback)
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Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have
lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future
people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise
deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical
relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as
Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to
those questions on the basis of an integrated approach to the
issues, applying the technical resources of modal logic to provide
structural cores for metaphysical theories. He rejects the search
for a metaphysically neutral logic as futile. The book contains
detailed historical discussion of how the metaphysical issues
emerged in the twentieth century development of quantified modal
logic, through the work of such figures as Rudolf Carnap, Ruth
Barcan Marcus, Arthur Prior, and Saul Kripke. It proposes
higher-order modal logic as a new setting in which to resolve such
metaphysical questions scientifically, by the construction of
systematic logical theories embodying rival answers and their
comparison by normal scientific standards. Williamson provides both
a rigorous introduction to the technical background needed to
understand metaphysical questions in quantified modal logic and an
extended argument for controversial, provocative answers to them.
He gives original, precise treatments of topics including the
relation between logic and metaphysics, the methodology of theory
choice in philosophy, the nature of possible worlds and their role
in semantics, plural quantification compared to quantification into
predicate position, communication across metaphysical disagreement,
and problems for truthmaker theory.
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