Stalnaker Mere Possibilities

Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4229-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 184 Seiten

Reihe: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Stalnaker, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Chapter 1: On What There Isn’t (But Might Have Been) 1
Chapter 2: Merely Possible Possible Worlds 22
Chapter 3: What Is Haecceitism, and Is It True? 52
Chapter 4: Disentangling Semantics from Metaphysics 89
Chapter 5: Modal Realism, Modal Rationalism, Modal Naturalism 126
Appendix A: Modeling Contingently Existing Propositions 136
Appendix B: Propositional Functions and Properties 139
Appendix C: A Model for a Mighty Language 149
Appendix D: Counterpart Semantics for the Cheap Haecceitist 154
References 157
Index 161

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Stalnaker is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Our Knowledge of the Internal World,
Ways a World Might Be,
Context and Content, and Inquiry.