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Identity and Modality

Author : Fraser MacBride
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199285748
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Modality written by Fraser MacBride and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume address fundamental, and interrelated, philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that have not only been pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century, but remain a key focus of metaphysical debate in the twenty-first. How are we to understand the concepts of necessity and possibility? Is chance a basic ingredient of reality? How are we to make sense of claims about personal identity? Do numbers requiredistinctive identity criteria? Does the capacity to identify an object presuppose an ability to bring it under a sortal concept?Rather than presenting a single, partisan perspective, Identity and Modality enriches our understanding of identity and modality by bringing together papers written by leading researchers working in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics. The resulting variety of perspectives correspondingly reflects both the breadth and depth of contemporary theorizing about identity and modality, each paper addressing a particular issue andadvancing our knowledge of the area.This volume will provide essential reading for graduate students in the subject and professional philosophers.

Ontology, Identity, and Modality

Author : Peter van Inwagen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521795487
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Ontology, Identity, and Modality written by Peter van Inwagen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen of Peter van Inwagen's essays on metaphysics, with a specially-written introduction.

Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190282932
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality by : Alvin Plantinga

Download or read book Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality written by Alvin Plantinga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential subject. Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena? Are there possible but non-actual objects? Can objects that do not exist exemplify properties? Plantinga gives thorough and penetrating answers to all of these questions and many others. This volume contains some of the best work in metaphysics from the past 30 years, and will remain a source of critical contention and keen interest among philosophers of metaphysics and philosophical logic for years to come.

The Metaphysics of Modality

Author : Graeme Forbes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Modality written by Graeme Forbes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytic philosophy has recently demonstrated a revived interest in metaphysical problems about possibility and necessity. Graeme Forbes here provides a careful description of the logical background of recent work in this area for those who may be unfamiliar with it, moving on to d discuss the distinction between modality de re and modality de dicto and the ontological commitments of possible worlds semantics. In addition, Forbes offers a unified theory of the essential properties of sets, organisms, artefacts, substances, and events, based on the doctrine that identity facts must be intrinsically grounded, and analyzes and rejects apparent counterexamples to this doctrine.

Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality

Author : Mircea Dumitru
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192598287
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality by : Mircea Dumitru

Download or read book Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality written by Mircea Dumitru and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first edited collection of papers on the work of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers. Over the last five decades, Kit Fine has made thought-provoking and innovative contributions to several areas of systematic philosophy, including philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as to a number of topics in philosophical logic. These contributions have helped reshape the agendas of those fields and have given fresh impetus to a number of perennial debates. Fine's work is distinguished by its technical sophistication, philosophical breadth, and independence from current orthodoxy. A blend of sound common-sense combined with a virtuosity in argumentation and constructive thinking is part and parcel of Kit Fine's lasting contributions to current trends in analytic philosophy. Researchers and students in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and cognitive science will benefit alike from these critical contributions to Fine's novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality, and will come away with a better understanding of the issues within contemporary analytic philosophy with which they deal.

Modality, Morality and Belief

Author : Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521440820
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Modality, Morality and Belief written by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop new positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism, and the explantion of actions by beliefs. This state of the art collection honors one of the most rigorous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.

Modality and Tense

Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199278709
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Modality and Tense written by Kit Fine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.

Work Identity

Author : Billy Adamsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031377346
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Work Identity written by Billy Adamsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, 80% of the employees are no longer engaged in their work and capable of performing, while 44% are experiencing work related stress and getting sick from working. A significant increase in time spent on interpretation at work trying to understand what managers and colleagues are saying has been observed too. This book offers a critical view on vocational inventory tests and the development of the work language and the use of it describing work identity. As well as a neurophilosophical perspective on self and work identity, this book provides a plausible neurophilosophical explanation for the negative impact of losing work identity on our work behavior, well-being, and success. Furthermore, the author introduces the innovative Work Identity Pro, the first work identity test to independently measure work identity. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of human resources management, organisation studies and organisational psychology. It will also be of interest to managers and those with an interest in work identity, behaviour and well-being.

Content and Modality

Author : Judith Thomson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199282803
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Content and Modality written by Judith Thomson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major presence in contemporary philosophy, in honour of whom the volume is published. It also contains a substantial new essay in whichStalnaker replies to his critics, and sets out his current views on the topics discussed.Contributors: Richard Heck, Frank Jackson, William Lycan, Vann McGee, John Perry, Paul Pietroski, Sydney Shoemaker, Scott Soames, Daniel Stoljar, Timothy Williamson, and Stephen Yablo.

Modality and Tense

Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019153532X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Modality and Tense written by Kit Fine and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kit Fine has since the 1970s been one of the leading contributors to work at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. This is his eagerly-awaited first book in the area. It draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense. These puzzling aspects of the way the world is have been the focus of considerable philosophical attention in recent decades. Fine gives here the definitive exposition and defence of certain positions for which he is well known: the intelligibility of modality de re; the primitiveness of the modal; and the primacy of the actual over the possible. But the book also argues for several positions that are not so familiar: the existence of distinctive forms of natural and normative necessity, not reducible to any form of metaphysical necessity; the need to make a distinction between the worldly and the unworldly, analogous to the distinction between the tensed and the tenseless; and the viability of a non-standard form of realism about tense, which recognizes the tensed character of reality without conceding that there is any privileged standpoint from which it is to be viewed. Modality and Tense covers a wide range of topics from many different areas: the possible-worlds analysis of counterfactuals; the compatibility of special relativity with presentism; the implications of ethical naturalism; and the nature of first-personal experience. A helpful introduction orients the reader and offers a way into some of the most original work in contemporary philosophy.

Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality

Author : Mircea Dumitru
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199652627
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality written by Mircea Dumitru and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the provocative and innovative contributions to philosophy of language, metaphysics, the philosophy of mathematics, and logic made by Kit Fine, one of the world's foremost philosophers. Topics covered include meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality.

Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference

Author : Michael Jubien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521433990
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference written by Michael Jubien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-27 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the concept of a physical thing and about how the names of things relate to the things they name. It questions the prevalent view that names 'refer to' or 'denote' the things they name. Instead it presents a new theory of proper names, according to which names express certain special properties that the things they name exhibit. This theory leads to some important conclusions about whether things have any of their properties as a matter of necessity. This will be an important book for philosophers in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, though it will also interest linguists concerned with the semantics of natural language.

Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity

Author : Christopher Hughes
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780191544002
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity by : Christopher Hughes

Download or read book Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity written by Christopher Hughes and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Christopher Hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and identity. He clears up some common misunderstandings of Kripke's views on rigid designation, causality and reference, the necessary and the contingent, the a posteriori and the a priori. Through his engagement with Kripke's ideas Hughes makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates on, inter alia, the semantics of natural kind terms, the nature of natural kinds, the essentiality of origin and constitution, the relative merits of 'identitarian' and counterpart-theoretic accounts of modality, and the identity or otherwise of mental types and tokens with physical types and tokens. No specialist knowledge in either the philosophy of language or metaphysics is presupposed; Hughes's book will be valuable for anyone working on the ideas which Kripke made famous in the philosophy world.

Towards Non-Being

Author : Graham Priest
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199262543
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Towards Non-Being written by Graham Priest and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language - verbs such as 'believes', 'fears', 'seeks', 'imagines'. Graham Priest's account tackles problems concerning intentional states which are often brushed under the carpet in discussions of intentionality, such as their failure to be closed under deducibility. Drawing on the work of the late Richard Routley (Sylvan), it proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, atworlds that may be either possible or impossible. Since Russell, non-existent objects have had a bad press in Western philosophy; Priest mounts a full-scale defence. In the process, he offers an account of both fictional and mathematical objects as non-existent.The book will be of central interest to anyone who is concerned with intentionality in the philosophy of mind or philosophy of language, the metaphysics of existence and identity, the philosophy or fiction, the philosophy of mathematics, or cognitive representation in AI.

Modal Logic as Metaphysics

Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019955207X
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Modal Logic as Metaphysics written by Timothy Williamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resources of quantified modal logic. Contrary to the widespread assumption that logic and metaphysics are disjoint, he argues that modal logic provides a structural core for metaphysics.

Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology

Author : Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000840433
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology written by Anand Jayprakash Vaidya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy. Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally.

Time and Identity

Author : Joseph Keim Campbell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262014092
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Time and Identity written by Joseph Keim Campbell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays on the metaphysics of time, identity, and the self, written by distinguished scholars and important rising philosophers.The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience—it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all—and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn questions about identity, particularly about the persistence of identical entities through change. Indeed, questions about the metaphysics of persistence take on many of the complexities inherent in philosophical considerations of time. This volume of original essays brings together these two essentially related concepts in a way not reflected in the available literature, making it required reading for philosophers working in metaphysics and students interested in these topics. The contributors, distinguished authors and rising scholars, first consider the nature of time and then turn to the relation of identity, focusing on the metaphysical connections between the two, with a special emphasis on personal identity. The volume concludes with essays on the metaphysics of death, issues in which time and identity play a significant role. This groundbreaking collection offers both cutting-edge epistemological analysis and historical perspectives on contemporary topics.ContributorsHarriet Baber, Lynne Rudder Baker, Ben Bradley, John W. Carroll, Reinaldo Elugardo, Geoffrey Gorham, Mark Hinchliff, Jenann Ismael, Barbara Levenbook, Andrew Light, Lawrence B. Lombard, Ned Markosian, Harold Noonan, John Perry, Harry S. Silverstein, Matthew H. Slater, Robert J. Stainton, Neil A. Tognazzini