Modalities: Philosophical Essays - Brossura

Marcus, Ruth Barcan

 
9780195096576: Modalities: Philosophical Essays

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

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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

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ISBN 10:  0195076982 ISBN 13:  9780195076981
Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1993
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