Robert C. Stalnaker: Ways a World Might Be

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Robert Stalnaker draws together in this volume his seminal work in metaphysics. The central theme is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The book begins with reflections on the general idea of a possible world, and then uses the framework of possible worlds to formulate and clarify some questions about properties and individuals, reference, thought, and experience. The essays also reflect on the nature of metaphysics, and on the relation between questions about what there is and questions about how we talk and think about what there is. Two of the fourteen essays, plus an extensive introduction that sets the papers in context and draws out the essays' common threads, are published here for the first time.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. Ways and Worlds

1: Possible Worlds

2: On What Possible Worlds Could Not Be

3: Impossibilities

II. Carving Up Logical Space

4: Anti-Essentialism

5: Varieties of Supervenience

III. Identity In and Across Possible Worlds

6: Counterparts and Identity

7: Vague Identity

8: The Interaction of Modality with Quantifiers and Identity

IV. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics

9: Reference and Necessity

10: On Considering a Possible World as Actual

11: Conceptual Truth and Metaphysical Necessity

V. Subjective Possibilities

12: What is it Like to be a Zombie?

13: Comparing Qualia Across Persons

14: On Thomas Nagel's Objective Self

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780199251490
ISBN-10:	0199251495
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Stalnaker, Robert C.
Hersteller:	OUP Oxford
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert C. Stalnaker
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2003
Gewicht:	0,459 kg

Artikel-ID: 116198002

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. Ways and Worlds

1: Possible Worlds

2: On What Possible Worlds Could Not Be

3: Impossibilities

II. Carving Up Logical Space

4: Anti-Essentialism

5: Varieties of Supervenience

III. Identity In and Across Possible Worlds

6: Counterparts and Identity

7: Vague Identity

8: The Interaction of Modality with Quantifiers and Identity

IV. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics

9: Reference and Necessity

10: On Considering a Possible World as Actual

11: Conceptual Truth and Metaphysical Necessity

V. Subjective Possibilities

12: What is it Like to be a Zombie?

13: Comparing Qualia Across Persons

14: On Thomas Nagel's Objective Self

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780199251490
ISBN-10:	0199251495
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Stalnaker, Robert C.
Hersteller:	OUP Oxford
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert C. Stalnaker
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2003
Gewicht:	0,459 kg