A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds.
A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds.
Charles S. Chihara is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Possible Worlds Semantics 2: Transworld Identity 3: Modal Realism 4: Forbes's Anti-Modal Realism 5: The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic 6: Modality without Worlds: The Semantics of Modal Sentential Logic 7: Quantificational Logic 8: Modality without Worlds: Explorations, Developments, and Defences 9: Anti-Realism in Mathematics Bibliography Index
Introduction 1: Possible Worlds Semantics 2: Transworld Identity 3: Modal Realism 4: Forbes's Anti-Modal Realism 5: The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic 6: Modality without Worlds: The Semantics of Modal Sentential Logic 7: Quantificational Logic 8: Modality without Worlds: Explorations, Developments, and Defences 9: Anti-Realism in Mathematics Bibliography Index
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