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The Nature of Necessity

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191037176
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Necessity written by Alvin Plantinga and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1978-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the philosophy of religion - the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Argument.

The Nature of Necessity

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198244142
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Necessity written by Alvin Plantinga and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1974 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the philosophy of religion - the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Argument.

The Nature of Necessity

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198244141
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (441 download)

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Buzz

Author : Thor Hanson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465098800
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Buzz written by Thor Hanson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers presents a natural and cultural history of bees: the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round. Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. In Buzz, the beloved Thor Hanson takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first dared to feed pollen to its young. From honeybees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers, miners, leafcutters, and masons, bees have long been central to our harvests, our mythologies, and our very existence. They've given us sweetness and light, the beauty of flowers, and as much as a third of the foodstuffs we eat. And, alarmingly, they are at risk of disappearing. As informative and enchanting as the waggle dance of a honeybee, Buzz shows us why all bees are wonders to celebrate and protect. Read this book and you'll never overlook them again.

Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy

Author : Don Garrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190880007
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy written by Don Garrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both philosophical naturalism and explanatory rationalism. Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy brings together for the first time eighteen of Don Garrett's articles on Spinoza's philosophy, ranging over the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy. Taken together, these influential articles provide a comprehensive interpretation of that philosophy, including Spinoza's theories of substance, thought and extension, causation, truth, knowledge, individuation, representation, consciousness, conatus, teleology, emotion, freedom, responsibility, virtue, contract, the state, and eternity-and the deep interrelations among them. Each article aims to resolve significant problems in the understanding of Spinoza's philosophy in such a way as to make evident both his reasons for his views and the enduring value of his ideas. At the same time, Garrett's articles elucidate the relations between his philosophy and those of predecessors and contemporaries like Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz. Lastly, the volume offers important and substantial replies to leading critics on four crucial topics: the necessary existence of God (Nature), substance monism, necessitarianism, and consciousness.

Nature and Necessity

Author : Tariq Goddard
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910924458
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Necessity written by Tariq Goddard and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though they were mother and daughter they were known mostly as ‘the sisters’. It was a union that would lead them both into lives they wished they had not had. For thirty-five years, two women frighten each other through the fading twilight of the last century, their existence an unacknowledged tragedy of manners. Confusing their duty to one another for the feelings they’re too busy to mention, their desire for “modest social success” ends by asphyxiating whatever lies within its grasp. From the art galleries of Manhattan Island to the pubs of the North Yorkshire Moors, Nature and Necessity is a wild reimagining of the nineteenth-century realist novel, a story of siblings battling for survival and supremacy, a war story without armies, and a warning that even the most promising and prosperous of lives can be crushed by the fear of uttering the confession: I love you.

God and Necessity

Author : Brian Leftow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199263353
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book God and Necessity written by Brian Leftow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Leftow offers a theist theory of necessity and possibility, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. He argues that necessities of logic and mathematics are determined by God's nature, but that it is events in God's mind - His imagination and choice - that account for necessary truths about concrete creatures.

Chance and Necessity

Author : Jacques Monod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140256468
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Chance and Necessity written by Jacques Monod and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.

Necessity, Volition, and Love

Author : Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521633956
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Necessity, Volition, and Love written by Harry G. Frankfurt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining foundational metaphysical and epistemological issues concerning Descartes, moral philosophy, and philosophical anthropology.

Naming and Necessity

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674598461
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Naming and Necessity written by Saul A. Kripke and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.

Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap

Author : Max Cresswell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316760456
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap written by Max Cresswell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval (including Arabic) traditions, and then moves to the early modern period with particular attention to Locke and Leibniz. The views of Kant, Peirce, C. I. Lewis and Carnap complete the volume. Many of the essays illuminate the connection between the historical figures studied, and recent or current work in the philosophy of modality. The result is a rich and wide-ranging picture of the history of the logical modalities.

Necessity

Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
ISBN 13 : 9049985874
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Necessity written by Brian Garfield and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To escape her husband, a wife embarks on a radical adventure Her name is Jennifer Hartman, or perhaps Dorothy Holder. She has birth certificates that say both. She got the names from old obituary files, and then went to the county clerk to ask for new copies. Her real name doesn’t matter, because her former life is gone. Since she went on the run, she has surprised herself with her ingenuity. She makes her way to Los Angeles and takes a room in an unassuming, out-of-the-way motel. She destroys her credit cards but keeps her old driver’s license—she has one last use for it. She enrolls in flying lessons, taking three or four a week in order to master the small plane as quickly as possible. Her plan is complex but, if it works, brilliant. She is fleeing her husband. A single error will mean death, but she is through with mistakes.

Leibniz, God and Necessity

Author : Michael V. Griffin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521117089
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz, God and Necessity written by Michael V. Griffin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.

Study for Necessity

Author : JoEllen Kwiatek
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383249
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Study for Necessity written by JoEllen Kwiatek and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Study for Necessity is the 2014 winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Judge Emily Wilson: Kwiatek's poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists' worlds they refer to: those of Casper David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Odilon Redon. Each is a "token of strangeness" built with delicacy and restraint, embodying, vivifying, what the poet calls the mind's "lonesome flourish""--

Freedom and Necessity

Author : Steven Brust
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765316806
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Necessity written by Steven Brust and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you liked Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell-or Christopher Priest's The Prestige-or Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost-here is a classic of magic-tinged adventure you may have missed.

God, Chance and Necessity

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : ONEWorld Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book God, Chance and Necessity written by Keith Ward and published by ONEWorld Publications. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "new materialism" argues that science and religious belief arencompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology, biology, andociobiology view points, and shows that modern scientific knowledge does notndermine belief in God, but points to the existence of God.

Meaning and Necessity - A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1446545563
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Meaning and Necessity - A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic written by Rudolf Carnap and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted with various other semantical methods used in traditional philosophy or by contemporary authors. These other methods have one characteristic in common. They all regard an expression in a language as a name of a concrete or abstract entity. In contradistinction, the method here proposed takes an expression, not as naming anything, but as possessing an intension and an extension. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.