Essays in the metaphysics of modality / Alvin Plantinga ; edited by Matthew Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plantinga, Alvin.

Contributor:

Davidson, Matthew, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modality (Logic).

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

vi, 239 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

A collection of previously published articles from 1969 to 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195103769

0195103777

OCLC:

47995987