Modalities : philosophical essays
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Modalities : philosophical essays
Oxford University Press, 1995, c1993
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Note
"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1995" --T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of Marcus's non-technical essays includes her ground-breaking axiomatizations of quantified modal logic.
Table of Contents
- 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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