Possible worlds
Subtitle: logic, semantics and ontology
By: Guido Imaguire, Dale Jacquette (editors) ; foreword by Kit Fine
Series: Basic philosophical concepts; Basic philosophical concepts
Publisher: Philosophia
Published: 2010
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9783884051009
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Modality (Logic); Ontology; Symbolic and mathematical Logic; Semantics (Philosophy); Possibility
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Kit Fine; title: Introduction: Logical possibilities and the concept of a logically possible world  -- Guido Imaguire, Dale Jacquette; title: From Origen to Kripke: a history of possible worlds  -- Hans Burkhardt; title: What is a possible world?  -- Jean-Yves Beziau; title: The art of modeling  -- Johan van Benthem; title: Kripkean epistemically possible worlds  -- Dale Jacquette; title: Counterpart semantics and the multiple De Re  -- Manfred Kupffer; title: Making too much of worlds  -- John Woods; title: Worldly woes: the troubles with possible worlds  -- Nicholas Rescher; title: Modal reasoning without possible worlds -- Guido Imaguire.