Modalities: Philosophical Essays - Brossura

Marcus, Ruth Barcan

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ISBN 10: 0195096576 ISBN 13: 9780195096576

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 1995

Riassunto

This collection of Marcus's non-technical essays includes her ground-breaking axiomatizations of quantified modal logic.

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Recensione

Marcus is a brilliant, original, learned, tenacious, and productive scholar ... this review of the development of her thought, its connections with some important historical figures, and her differences with other contemporary philosophers [is] of great value. (David Kaplan, University of California)

Contenuti

• Introduction
• 1: Modalities and Intensional Languages
• 2: Iterated Deontic Modalities
• 3: Essentialism in Modal Logic
• 4: Essential attribution
• Appendix: Strict implication, deducibility and the deduction theorem
• 5: Quantification and ontology
• 6: Classes, collections, assortments, and individuals
• 7: Does the principle of substitutivity rest on a mistake?
• 8: Nominalism and the substitutional quantifier
• 9: Moral dilemmas and consistency
• 10: Rationality and believing the impossible
• 11: Spinoza and the ontological proof
• 12: On some post-1920s views of Russell on particularity, identity and individiation
• 13: Possibilia and possible worlds
• 14: A backward look at Quine's animadversions on modalities
• 15: Some revisionary proposals about belief and believing

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195096576
• ISBN 13: 9780195096576
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia