Identity And Modality
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Identity And Modality
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Author : Fraser MacBride
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2006-07-20
Identity And Modality written by Fraser MacBride and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-20 with Philosophy categories.
The papers in this volume address fundamental, and interrelated, philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that have not only been pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century, but remain a key focus of metaphysical debate in the twenty-first. How are we to understand the concepts of necessity and possibility? Is chance a basic ingredient of reality? How are we to make sense of claims about personal identity? Do numbers require distinctive identity criteria? Does the capacity to identify an object presuppose an ability to bring it under a sortal concept? Rather than presenting a single, partisan perspective, Identity and Modality enriches our understanding of identity and modality by bringing together papers written by leading researchers working in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics. The resulting variety of perspectives correspondingly reflects both the breadth and depth of contemporary theorizing about identity and modality, each paper addressing a particular issue and advancing our knowledge of the area. This volume will provide essential reading for graduate students in the subject and professional philosophers.
Ontology Identity And Modality
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Author : Peter Van Inwagen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Identity And Modality
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language : en
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Release Date : 2009
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Modality And Identity
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Author : John Murray Cochran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Modality And Identity written by John Murray Cochran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Knowledge representation (Information theory) categories.
Identity Modality And Space Time
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Author : Ellis Joseph Crasnow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Identity Modality And Space Time written by Ellis Joseph Crasnow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Space and time categories.
Objects Identity And Modality
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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Philosophical reflection on our ordinary beliefs about material objects reveals that the picture they suggest is riddled with problems. While some philosophers think that these problems can be adequately addressed while leaving the core beliefs intact, others take them to show that the picture is fundamentally mistaken. I fall in the latter camp. In this dissertation, I defend ontological nihilism (just nihilism, from here forth), the view that there is no mind-independent material individuation and so, there are no material objects. My first main task is to argue that the ordinary view of objects--the view that all and only the sorts of objects we ordinarily recognize as existing (e.g. trees, books, atoms, cats etc.)--cannot be maintained in light of the aforementioned problems. The second task is to provide a defense of nihilism. My main argument centers on the significance of objects' de re modal properties in fixing their identity conditions: I argue that if objects' modal properties are not real--that is, if they are fixed by our thoughts and beliefs and not by the mind-independent world--then the objects that possess those modal properties are not real. I then argue that it is implausible that objects' modal properties are fixed by the mind-independent world. These claims jointly entail that there are no material objects. Following this, I defend the plausibility of an objectless ontology--an ontology of unindividuated material "stuff". Here I address concerns about reference and the existential quantifier, show that a paraphrase strategy can adequately accommodate our everyday thought and talk, and argue that nothing I say is inconsistent with our best science. The final part of my defense of nihilism concerns explaining exactly why and how eliminating objects provides a unified solution to a slew of difficult metaphysical puzzles. I conclude by arguing that while nihilism is not the most intuitive view, it does not conflict with common sense to the degree that it initially seems.
Modalities Identity Belief And Moral Dilemmas
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Author : Michael Frauchiger
language : en
Publisher: ISSN
Release Date : 2015
Modalities Identity Belief And Moral Dilemmas written by Michael Frauchiger and has been published by ISSN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Mathematics categories.
This paper surveys Ruth Marcus' many contributions to modal logic and its interpretation, starting with her pioneer work on quantified modal logic and ending with the controversies concerning the origin of the idea of rigid reference and other basic ideas in the so-called “New theory of reference.” Her contributions are discussed with close attention to who gave credit to whom.
Identity Modality And Schooling
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Author : Ian Neville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
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Keeping Modality In Mind
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Author : Karen E. Bennett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
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Modality And Anti Metaphysics
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Author : Stephen K. McLeod
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-18
Modality And Anti Metaphysics written by Stephen K. McLeod and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with Philosophy categories.
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 of metaphysics and the essentialist position that metaphysical modality is conceptually and ontologically primitive, Stephen McLeod argues that the logical positivists did not succeed in banishing metaphysical modality from their own theoretical apparatus and he offers an original defence of metaphysics against their advocacy of its elimination. Seeking to assuage the sceptical worries which underlie modal anti-realism, McLeod provides an original contribution to essentialist epistemology, engaging with current debates about modality and suggesting that standard essentialist approaches to some issues in the philosophies of logic and language require revision. This book offers valuable insights to professional philosophers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in metaphysics, philosophy of logic or the history of twentieth-century analytic philosophy.