Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds

ISBN-13: 9780815340515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 208 str.

Daniel Nolan

Opis

Daniel Nolan discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds, general questions about metaphysical analysis and questions about the direction of dependence between what is necessary or possible and what could be.

Spis treści

Introduction: General Approach 1 Possible Worlds 2. Towards Explaining the Connection Between Modality and Possible Worlds 3. Expressive Completeness Without Possible Worlds: The Hazen Cases 4. Problems for Strong Modal Fictionalism 5. Representing Aliens 6. Recombination Unbound 7. A Reduction of Classes to Possible Worlds Recapitulation Appendix 1: Proofs of Chapter 7 Appendix 2: Trouble for Lewis' Main Thesis References

O autorze

Daniel Nolan teaches in the philosophy department at Macquarie University.