Modality

Modality
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9781317489689
ISBN-13 : 1317489683
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Book Synopsis Modality by : Joseph Melia

Download or read book Modality written by Joseph Melia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semetics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de re/de dicto" distinction, conventionalist and conceptualist theories of modality and some of the key problems in modality, particularly Quine's criticisms. It then moves on to explain how possible worlds provide a solution to many of the problems in modality and how possible worlds themselves have been used to analyse notions outside modality such as properties and propositions. Possible worlds introduce problems of their own and the book argues that to make progress with these problems a theory of possible worlds is required. The pros and cons of various theories of possible worlds are then examined in turn, including those of Lewis, Kripke, Adams, Stalnaker and Plantinga.


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