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Essays in the metaphysics of modality / Alvin Plantinga ; edited by Matthew Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plantinga, Alvin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modality (Logic).
- Metaphysics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume collects the most important articles on the metaphysics of modality by philosopher Alvin Plantinga. The focus is on such fundamental issues in metaphysics as the nature of abstract objects.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Matthew Davidson
- 1. De Re et De Dicto
- 2. World and Essence
- 3. Transworld Identity or Worldbound Individuals?
- 4. The Nature of Necessity, Chapter VIII
- 5. Actualism and Possible Worlds
- 6. The Boethian Compromise
- 7. De Essentia
- 8. On Existentialism
- 9. Reply to John L. Pollock
- 10. Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism
- 11. Why Propositions Cannot Be Concrete
- Index.
- Notes:
- A collection of previously published articles from 1969 to 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028293-2
- 0-19-510377-7
- 1-281-93014-8
- 9786611930141
- 0-19-802638-2
- OCLC:
- 70695278
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