[PDF] Logical And Metaphysical Necessity eBook

Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019955207X

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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.

Author : Max Cresswell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1316760456

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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.

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191572292

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The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions—are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the papers address fundamental questions concerning realism and anti-realism about modality, the nature and basis of facts about what is possible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence and to counterfactual reasoning. The general introduction locates the individual contributions in the wider context of the contemporary discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of modality.

Author : Graham Priest
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0199262543

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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.

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191529230

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The concepts of identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are at the centre of philosophy and have rightly received sustained attention. Yet Colin McGinn believes that orthodox views of these topics are misguided in important ways. Philosophers and logicians have often distorted the nature of these concepts in an attempt to define them according to preconceived ideas. Logical Properties aims to respect the ordinary ways we talk and think when we employ these concepts, while at the same time showing that they are far more interesting and peculiar than some have supposed. There are real properties corresponding to these concepts - logical properties - that challenge naturalistic metaphysical views. These are not pseudo-properties or mere pieces of syntax. Logical Properties is written with the minimum of formal apparatus and deals with logico-linguistic issues as well as ontological ones. The focus is on trying to get to the essence of what the concept concerned stands for, and not merely finding some established notation for providing formal paraphrases.

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199669570

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Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.

Author : Kurt Mosser
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813215323

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Kurt Mosser argues that reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as an argument for such a logic of experience makes more defensible many of Kant's most controversial claims, and makes more accessible Kant's notoriously difficult text.

Author : Michael V. Griffin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521117089

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This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.