Modalities : philosophical essays

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Modalities : philosophical essays

Ruth Barcan Marcus

Oxford University Press, 1993

  • pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780195076981

内容説明

Informed by her earlier ground-breaking axiomatizations of quantified modal logic, the papers collected here by the distinguished philosopher Ruth Barcan Marcus cover much ground in the development of her thought from 1961 to 1990. The first essay introduces themes initially viewed as iconoclastic, such as the necessity of identity, the directly referential role of proper names as "tags, " the Barcan Formula about the interplay of possibility and existence, and alternative interpretations of quantification. Marcus also addresses the putative puzzles about substitutivity and about essentialism. The collection also includes influential essays on moral conflict, on belief and rationality, and on some historical figures. Though many of her views have been incorporated into current theories, others remain part of continuing philosophical debate.

目次

  • Modalities and intensional languages
  • Smullyan on modality and description
  • Iterated deontic modalities
  • Essentialism in modal logic
  • Essential attribution
  • Strict implication, deducibility and the deduction theorem
  • Quantification and ontology
  • Classes, collections, assortments and individuals
  • Does the principle of substitutivity rest on a mistake?
  • Nominalism and the substitutional quantifier
  • Moral dilemmas and consistency
  • Rationality and believing the impossible
  • Spinoza and the ontological proof
  • On some post-1920s views of Russell on particularity, identity and individiation
  • Possibilia and possible worlds
  • A backward look at Quine's animadversions on modalities
  • Some revisionary proposals about belief and believing.
巻冊次

pbk ISBN 9780195096576

内容説明

This collection of Marcus's non-technical essays includes her ground-breaking axiomatizations of quantified modal logic.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. Modalities and Intensional Languages
  • 2. Iterated Deontic Modalities
  • 3. Essentialism in Modal Logic
  • 4. Essential attribution
  • Appendix: Strict implication, deducibility and the deduction theorem
  • 5. Quantification and ontology
  • 6. Classes, collections, assortments, and individuals
  • 7. Does the principle of substitutivity rest on a mistake?
  • 8. Nominalism and the substitutional quantifier
  • 9. Moral dilemmas and consistency
  • 10. Rationality and believing the impossible
  • 11. Spinoza and the ontological proof
  • 12. On some post-1920s views of Russell on particularity, identity and individiation
  • 13. Possibilia and possible worlds
  • 14. A backward look at Quine's animadversions on modalities
  • 15. Some revisionary proposals about belief and believing

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