Modality and tense : philosophical papers / Kit Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Kit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modality (Logic).

Modality (Linguistics).

Tense (Logic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages)

Other Title:

Philosophical papers

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kit Fine has since the 1970s been one of the leading contributors to work at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. This is his eagerly-awaited first book in the area. It draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense. These puzzling aspects of the way the world is have been the focus of considerable philosophical attention in recent decades.Fine gives here the definitive exposition and defence of certain positions for which he is well known: the intelligibility of modality de re; the primitiveness of the modal; and the primacy

Contents:

pt. 1. Issues in the Philosophy of language. Reference, essence, and identity

The problem of De Re modality

Quine on quantifying in

pt. 2. Issues in Ontology. Prior on the construction of possible worlds and instants

Plantinga on the reduction of possibilist discourse

The problem of possibilia

pt. 3. Issues in Metaphysics. The varieties of necessity

Tense and reality

Necessity and non-existence

pt. 4. Reviews. Review of 'Counterfactuals' by David Lewis

Review of 'The Nature of Necessity' by Alvin Plantinga.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-378) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-927871-7

1-281-19853-6

9786611198534

0-19-153532-X

1-4356-2376-2

OCLC:

735625812

Publisher Number:

9780199278718 (hbk.)

9780199278717 (pbk.)