Topics in the philosophy of possible worlds:
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| Series: | Studies in philosophy
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| Physical Description: | XI, 213 S. |
| ISBN: | 0815340516 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
xi
Introduction
/
The General Approach
2
Chapter One
Possible Worlds
5
What are Possible Worlds ?
5
The Competing Theories of Possible Worlds
19
Chapter Two
Towards Explaining The Connection Between
Modality And Possible Worlds
29
What Might the Connection between Possible Worlds
Talk and Modal Operator Talk be?
50
The Primitives of a Theory
34
Modal Primitives
43
Chapter Three
Expressive Completeness Without Possible Worlds
The
Hazen
Cases
51
Neutral Quantification
52
The First Three
Hazen
Cases: Problems of Existence
55
Hazen
Case Number Four: A Case to be Set Aside
60
Two Challenging
Hazen
Cases
62
Defending The Use of Second-Order QML
67
vu
viii Contents
Chapter Four
Problems For Strong Modal Fictionalism
77
Three Varieties of Modal Fictionalism: Broad, Timid and Strong
79
The First Problem: Artificiality
81
The Second Problem: The Incompleteness of the Modal Fiction
86
The Third Problem: Propositions
88
An Assumption Relied on by the Incompleteness Objections,
and a Defence Thereof
92
A Final Problem: Redundancy
93
Conclusion
93
Chapter Five
Representing Aliens
95
The Problem
96
Denials that the Problem Arises
98
Explaining the Caveat Not Constractible out of
Existing
Universais
100
How to Represent Alien
Universais
104
The Problem for Linguistic Ersatzism and
Modal Fictionalism
707
Making Sure the World-Book Represents the Actual Universe
115
From Universes to Worlds
—
Salvaging Ersatz Worlds
from the Inter-Definition
120
How a Linguistic
Ersatzer
Can Reply to Lewis s Objection
Based on Alien
Universais
126
Conclusion
128
Chapter Six
Recombination Unbound
131
The Principle of Recombination and Lewis s Restriction
131
The Forrest/Armstrong Argument
133
How Possibilia Can be Seen as Forming a Proper Class
139
Some Arguments Against the Thesis that there is a
Maximum Size of Worlds (MS)
146
Conclusion
148
Chapter Seven
A Reduction Of Classes To Possible Worlds
/5/
The State-of-Play in Lewis s System
152
How Atoms Can Perform Double Duty
159
A Surprising Feature of the Account
165
Utilising the Surprising Feature
169
Contents ix
Recapitulation
175
Appendix One
Proofs For Chapter Seven
179
Section
1:
Proving that My Systems Satisfy Lewis s So-Called
Standard Axioms
779
Section
2:
Proofs of Impredicative Comprehension
193
Appendix Two
Trouble For Lewis s Main Thesis
195
The Problem
195
The Model
197
The Remedy
200
References
201
Index
207
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