Modal Logic As Metaphysics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780199552078
Description: 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.