On the Plurality of Worlds
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: February 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780631224266
Subjects: Plurality of worlds; Modality (Theory of Knowledge); Realism
First sentence: The world we live in is a very inclusive thing.
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
title: Preface; label: 1
title: A Philosopher's Paradise; title: The Thesis of Plurality of Worlds
pagenum: 1
label: 1.1; title: Modal Realism at Work: Modality
pagenum: 5
label: 1.2; title: Modal Realism at Work: Closeness
pagenum: 20
label: 1.3; title: Modal Realism at Work: Content
pagenum: 27
label: 1.4; title: Modal Realism at Work: Properties
pagenum: 50
label: 1.5; title: Isolation
pagenum: 69
label: 1.6; title: Concreteness
pagenum: 81
label: 1.7; title: Plenitude
pagenum: 86
label: 1.8; title: Actuality
pagenum: 92
label: 1.9; label: 2
title: Paradox in Paradise?; title: Everything is Actual?
pagenum: 97
label: 2.1; title: All Worlds in One?
pagenum: 101
label: 2.2; title: More Worlds Than There Are?
pagenum: 104
label: 2.3; title: How Can We Know?
pagenum: 108
label: 2.4; title: A Road to Scepticism?
pagenum: 115
label: 2.5; title: A Road to Indifference?
pagenum: 123
label: 2.6; title: Arbitrariness Lost?
pagenum: 128
label: 2.7; title: The Incredulous Stare
pagenum: 133
label: 2.8; label: 3
title: Paradise on the Cheap?; title: The Ersatzist Programme
pagenum: 136
label: 3.1; title: Linguistic Ersatzism
pagenum: 142
label: 3.2; title: Pictorial Ersatzism
pagenum: 165
label: 3.3; title: Magical Ersatzism
pagenum: 174
label: 3.4; label: 4
title: Counterparts or Double Lives?; title: Good Questions and Bad
pagenum: 192
label: 4.1; title: Against Overlap
pagenum: 198
label: 4.2; title: Against Trans-World Individuals
pagenum: 216
label: 4.3; title: Against Haecceitism
pagenum: 226
label: 4.4; title: Against Constancy
pagenum: 248
label: 4.5; pagenum: 264
title: Works Cited; pagenum: 271
title: Index