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This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semetics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de re/de dicto" distinction, conventionalist and conceptualist theories of modality and some of the key problems in modality, particularly Quine's criticisms. It then moves on to explain how possible worlds provide a solution to many of the problems in modality and how possible worlds themselves have been used to analyse notions outside modality such as properties and propositions. Possible worlds introduce problems of their own and the book argues that to make progress with these problems a theory of possible worlds is required. The pros and cons of various theories of possible worlds are then examined in turn, including those of Lewis, Kripke, Adams, Stalnaker and Plantinga.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

• Full title: Modality
• Author: Joseph Melia
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781902683478
• ID: 05022094
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 453 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. November 2003

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