Actuality Possibility And Worlds
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Actuality Possibility And Worlds
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Author : Alexander R. Pruss
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-05-19
Actuality Possibility And Worlds written by Alexander R. Pruss and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-19 with Religion categories.
Actuality, Possibility and Worlds is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible. The notion of possible worlds appears to be useful for many purposes, such as the analysis of counterfactuals or elucidating the nature of propositions and properties. This usefulness of possible worlds makes for a second general question: Are there any possible worlds and, if so, what are they? Are they concrete universes as David Lewis thinks, Platonic abstracta as per Robert M. Adams and Alvin Plantinga, or maybe linguistic or mathematical constructs such as Heller thinks? Or is perhaps Leibniz right in thinking that possibilia are not on par with actualities and that abstracta can only exist in a mind, so that possible worlds are ideas in the mind of God?
Possibility And Actuality
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Author : Nicolai Hartmann
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-03-22
Possibility And Actuality written by Nicolai Hartmann and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-22 with Philosophy categories.
Nicolai Hartmann's Possibility and Actuality is the second volume of a four-part investigation of ontology. It deals with such questions as: How do we know that something is really possible? Is the possible only the actual? Is the actual only the possible? What is the difference between ideal and real possibility? This groundbreaking work of modal analysis describes the logical relations between possibility, actuality, and necessity, and it provides insight into the relations between modes of knowledge and modes of being. Hartmann reviews the history of philosophical concepts of possibility and necessity, from ancient Megarian philosophy to Aristotle, to Medieval Scholasticism, to Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. He explains the importance of modal analysis as a basic investigative tool, and he proposes an approach to understanding the nature of human existence that unifies the fields of ontology, modal logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. This brilliant and fascinating work is relevant to many topics of debate in contemporary philosophy, including the ontology of possible worlds, the metaphysics of modality, the logic of counterfactual conditionals, and modal epistemology. It illuminates the nature of real, ideal, logical, and epistemic possibility.
Hegel On Possibility
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Author : Nahum Brown
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-20
Hegel On Possibility written by Nahum Brown and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Philosophy categories.
Providing a clear interpretation of Hegel's characterizations of possibility and actuality in the Science of Logic, this book departs from the standard understandings of these concepts to break new ground in Hegelian scholarship. The book draws out some of the implications of Hegel's view of immanent possibility, especially as it relates to Leibniz's thesis of modal optimism: his view that this world is the best of all possible worlds. Reading Hegel as a philosopher of possibility, against a tradition that has conceived of him primarily as a philosopher of necessity, rationality, and finitude, Nahum Brown demonstrates the historical background and philosophical traditions from which Hegel's concept of possibility emerges. Systematically outlining Hegel's conceptions of positive and negative freedom, Brown reveals the Hegelian underpinnings of our conception of reality and what it is to be in the world itself. Original and convincing, this book is crucial for philosophers approaching modality from any tradition.
World And Possibility
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Author : James Barlow
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2011-07
World And Possibility written by James Barlow and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07 with Philosophy categories.
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary has this to say for the word, possible: "pos.si.ble adj \ pa-s -b l\ Definition of POSSIBLE 1 a: being within the limits of ability, capacity, or realization b: being what may be conceived, be done, or occur according to nature, custom, or manners" In metaphysics and logic, a possibility might comprise a world simply because it is limited as something, anything, the result of adding or deleting something from the actual world. If we imagine a world minus the rules of deductive logical inference, that would still be a possible world according to the usual criteria allowing for same.The interesting results force one to consider, along with the author, the following questions (among others): What is the real difference between possibility and actuality? Why do 'possible worlds' seem real or actual? Is it because without a world of all possibility an actual world could or would not exist (be possible)? Is there such a thing as a World of All Possible Worlds? And what is it like? JAMES BARLOW is sometime Associate Professor of Philosophy for St. Andrew's College and Seminary in Lexington, North Carolina, and has taught Literature and Mathematics in Canada, Alaska, and the Philippines. His other philosophical book, "God and Eternity: A Reconsideration of the Thought of Eternal Return," is available from Dogear as well. He is currently Dean of the Cathedral of St. Andrew for the Diocese of Caledonia in the Anglican Church of Canada, and holds an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Frontier University."
Hegel S Actuality Chapter Of The Science Of Logic
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Author : Nahum Brown
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-12-03
Hegel S Actuality Chapter Of The Science Of Logic written by Nahum Brown and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-03 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores Hegel’s theory of modality (actuality, possibility, necessity, contingency) through extremely close textual analysis of the “Actuality” chapter of Hegel’s Science of Logic. The “Actuality” chapter is the equivalence of Aristotle’s momentous Metaphysics book 9. Because of this, Hegel’s chapter deserves the same thorough investigation into its complex insights and argumentation. This book situates Hegel’s insights about possibility and necessity within historical and contemporary debates about metaphysics, while analyzing some of the most controversial themes of Hegel’s theory, such as the question of the ontological status of unactualized possibilities, the relationship between contradiction and possibility, and the claim that necessity leads to freedom. This book also contributes to an ongoing philosophical inquiry into the nature of dialectics by articulating Hegel’s “Actuality” chapter as a coherent argument divided into twenty-seven premises.
The Actual And The Possible
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Author : Mark Sinclair
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Actual And The Possible written by Mark Sinclair and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with PHILOSOPHY categories.
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 centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history. The ultimate purpose of this historical approach is to contextualise and even to offer some alternatives to dominant positions within the contemporary philosophy of modality. Hence the volume contains not only new scholarship on the early-modern doctrines of Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff and Immanuel Kant, but also work relating to less familiar nineteenth-century thinkers such as Alexius Meinong and Jan Lukasiewicz, together with essays on celebrated nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers such as G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger and Bertrand Russell, whose modal doctrines have not previously garnered the attention they deserve. The volume thus covers a variety of traditions, and its historical range extends to the end of the twentieth century, addressing the legacy of W. V. Quine's critique of modality within recent analytic philosophy.
The Nature Of Necessity
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Author : Alvin Plantinga
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1978-02-01
The Nature Of Necessity written by Alvin Plantinga and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-02-01 with Philosophy categories.
This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the philosophy of religion - the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Argument.
Leibniz On Compossibility And Possible Worlds
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Author : Gregory Brown
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-27
Leibniz On Compossibility And Possible Worlds written by Gregory Brown and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-27 with Philosophy categories.
This volume brings together a number of original articles by leading Leibniz scholars to address the meaning and significance of Leibniz’s notions of compossibility and possible worlds. In order to avoid the conclusion that everything that exists is necessary, or that all possibles are actual, as Spinoza held, Leibniz argued that not all possible substances are compossible, that is, capable of coexisting. In Leibniz’s view, the compossibility relation divides all possible substances into disjoint sets, each of which constitutes a possible world, or a way that God might have created things. For Leibniz, then, it is the compossibility relation that individuates possible worlds; and possible worlds form the objects of God’s choice, from among which he chooses the best for creation. Thus the notions of compossibility and possible worlds are of major significance for Leibniz’s metaphysics, his theodicy, and, ultimately, for his ethics. Given the fact, however, that none of the approaches to understanding Leibniz’s notions of compossibility and possible words suggested to date have gained universal acceptance, the goal of this book is to gather a body of new papers that explore ways of either refining previous interpretations in light of the objections that have been raised against them, or ways of framing new interpretations that will contribute to a fresh understanding of these key notions in Leibniz’s thought.
Sonic Possible Worlds Revised Edition
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Author : Salomé Voegelin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-01-14
Sonic Possible Worlds Revised Edition written by Salomé Voegelin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Music categories.
From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salomé Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated principally via David K. Lewis and developed through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological life-worlds, creates a view on the invisible slices of the world and reflects on how to make them count, politically and aesthetically. How to make them thinkable and accessible as the possibility of the everyday and of art: to reach a new materialist understanding from the invisible and to develop an ear for the as yet inaudible. This revised edition continues Voegelin's exploration of the sonic possibility of the world into the sonic possibility and impossibility of the body. Listening to work by Áine O'Dwyer, Hannah Silva and Jocy de Oliveira, it considers sonic possible worlds' radical power to rethink normative constructions and to fabulate a different body from its sound: Hearing the Continuum Between Plural Bodies; between humans, humanoid aliens, monsters, vampires, plants, things and anything we have no name for yet but which a sonic philosophy might start to hear and call.
Modality And Explanatory Reasoning
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Author : Boris Kment
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-09-18
Modality And Explanatory Reasoning written by Boris Kment and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-18 with Philosophy categories.
Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and 70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which concerns the questions of what is possible and what is necessary. However, there is considerable controversy over the source and nature of necessity. In Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Boris Kment takes a novel approach to the study of modality that places special emphasis on understanding the origin of modal notions in everyday thought. Kment argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment—counterfactual reasoning—that allows us to investigate explanatory connections. This procedure is closely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science. Necessity is defined in terms of causation and other forms of explanation such as grounding, the relation that connects metaphysically fundamental facts to non-fundamental ones. Therefore, contrary to a widespread view, explanation is more fundamental than modality. The study of modal facts is important for philosophy, not because these facts are of much metaphysical interest in their own right, but because they provide evidence about explanatory relationships. In the course of developing this position, the book offers new accounts of possible worlds, counterfactual conditionals, essential truths and their role in grounding, and a novel theory of how counterfactuals relate to causation and explanation.