Worlds and individuals, possible and otherwise
By: Takashi Yagisawa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780199576890
Other titles: Worlds & individuals, possible & otherwise
Description: Takashi Yagisawa argues for a new version of modal realism, the view that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual ones. He asserts that the notion of reality is primitive, existence is a relation between a thing and a domain and ordinary objects are extended in spatial, temporal, and modal dimensions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modal realism; title: Time, space, world; title: Existence; title: Actuality; title: Modal realism and modal tense; title: Transworld individuals and their identity; title: Existensionalism; title: Impossibility; title: Proposition and relief; title: Fictional worlds; title: Epistemology.