Actuality, possibility and worlds. (2011 copyright 2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexander R. Pruss.
• Other Names: Pruss, Alexander R
• Contents: Preface Part I. Introduction Section 1 Generic definitions and basic modal realism Section 2 Metaphysical versus logical possibility? Section 3 S5 Section 4 Eight views of possibility Part II. Applications and pseudo-applications Section 1 Modality Section 2 Counterfactuals and causality Section 3 Propositions Section 4 Properties Section 5 Overall assessment Part III. The Lewisian ontology of extreme modal realism Section 1 The Lewisian account of possible worlds Section 2 Identity vs. counterpart theory Section 3 Indiscernible worlds? Section 4 Lewis's arguments for his ontology Section 5 Objections to Lewis's account of actuality Section 6 The possibility of spatio-temporally unrelated co-actual entities Section 7 Cardinality and the 'set' of all possible worlds Section 8 Ethical issues Section 9 Induction and actuality Section 10 The epistemological objection Section 11 Explaining the actual in terms of the necessary Section 12 A final assessment of extreme modal realism Part IV. Platonic ersatz ontologies Section 1 The general strategy Section 2 Linguistic approaches Section 3 Platonism Section 4 Conclusions Part V. Sketches towards a Spinozistic-Tractarian account of modality Section 1 Asserting, naming and infallibility Section 2 Spinoza Section 3 A radical theory of modality Section 4 Costs Section 5 The less radical theory Part VI. Aristotelian-Leibnizian ontology Section 1 Leibniz's approach Section 2 Aristotelian possibility and causality.
• Publisher Details: New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 111; Possibility; Possibility -- Religious aspects; Plurality of worlds
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441142719; 1441142711
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