Timothy Williamson

Gebundenes Buch

Modal Logic as Metaphysics

Beschreibung

Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resources of quantified modal logic. Contrary to the widespread assumption that logic and metaphysics are disjoint, he argues that modal logic provides a structural core for metaphysics.

Autor

Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College Oxford. He was previously Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, and has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, and as a visitor at MIT, Princeton, the Australian National University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and elsewhere. He has published dentity and Discrimination (Wiley-Blackwell, 1990), Vagueness (Routledge, 1994), Knowledge and its Limits (Clarendon Press, 2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and many articles on logic and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 158mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 837g
• ISBN-13: 9780199552078
• ISBN-10: 019955207X
• Artikelnr.: 38145383