The Possible and the actual
Subtitle: readings in the metaphysics of modality
By: edited by Michael J. Loux.
Contributors: Loux, Michael J.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Modality (Logic); Possibility; Reality; Metaphysics
Notes: Bibliography: p. 317-329.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Loux, M. J. Introduction.; title: Hintikka, J. The modes of modality.; title: Chisholm, R. M. Identity through possible worlds.; title: Kaplan, D. Transworld heir lines.; title: Lewis, D. Counterpart theory and quantified modal logic.; title: Cresswell, M. J. The world is everything that is the case.; title: Plantinga. A Transworld identity or worldbound individuals? Rescher, N. The ontology of the possible.; title: Lewis, D. Possible worlds.; title: Adams, R. M. Theories of actuality.; title: Kaplan, D. How to Russell a frege-church.; title: Stalnaker, R. C. Possible worlds.; title: Mondadori, F. and Morton, A. Modal realism.; title: Plantinga, A. Actualism and possible worlds.; title: Lycan, W. The trouble with possible worlds.