Ways a World Might Be
Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 August 2003
- ISBN 9780199251483
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 242x162x20 mm
- Weight 588 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
This collection brings together important essays of consistently high quality by a leading contemporary metaphysician. The prospect of a collection offers the author the opportunity to take an overview of his work and to identify its core and unifying themes. And when this opportunity is taken, what is distinctive and demanding of our attention in the authors work emerges more clearly and the work itself emerges with added significance. Robert Stalnaker has taken this opportunity, and so Ways a World Might Be is a collection which stands as a genuinely valuable addition to his previously published work and to the literature of contemporary metaphysics.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
I. Ways and Worlds
Possible Worlds
On What Possible Worlds Could Not Be
Impossibilities
II. Carving Up Logical Space
Anti-Essentialism
Varieties of Supervenience
III. Identity In and Across Possible Worlds
Counterparts and Identity
Vague Identity
The Interaction of Modality with Quantifiers and Identity
IV. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics
Reference and Necessity
On Considering a Possible World as Actual
Conceptual Truth and Metaphysical Necessity
V. Subjective Possibilities
What is it Like to be a Zombie?
Comparing Qualia Across Persons
On Thomas Nagel's Objective Self
