| Description |
1 online resource (276 pages) |
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Philosophische analyse / philosophical analysis ; 51 |
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Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 51.
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| Contents |
1 Introduction; 2 Supervenience; 2.1 Supervenience; 2.2 Covariance; 2.3 Covariance and Ontological Priority; 2.4 Covariance and Modal Supervenience; 2.5 Modal Supervenience and Explanation; 2.6 Explaining Explanations; A Strong and Global Supervenience; A.1 Kim's Attempted Equivalence Proof; A.2 Non-Equivalence Examples; A.3 Restricted Entailment?; A.4 Against Restricted Entailment; 3 Concrete Possible Worlds; 3.1 Possibility and Possible Worlds; 3.2 The Analysis Claim; 3.3 Lewis Worlds; 3.4 The Irrelevance Objection; 3.4.1 Against IO1; 3.4.2 Against IO2; 3.4.3 Against IO3; 3.5 Counterparts |
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3.6 Actual Problems for Lewis3.6.1 Possible Non-Existence; 3.6.2 Surprises; 3.6.3 Actuality; 3.7 Lewisian Explanations; 4 Abstract Possible Worlds; 4.1 Something from Nothing; 4.1.1 Pleonastic Properties; 4.1.2 Something-from-Nothing Entailment Claims; 4.1.3 Property Concepts; 4.1.4 True SNECs; 4.2 Pleonastic Possible Worlds; 4.3 Objections and Clarifications; 4.3.1 Existence; 4.3.2 Explanation; 4.3.3 Competitors; 5 Possibility and Probability; 5.1 Initial Motivation; 5.2 Different Kinds of Probability; 5.2.1 Epistemic Probabilities; 5.2.2 Objective Probabilities |
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5.3 The Temporal Structure of 'Might's5.3.1 Might; 5.3.2 Might Have; 5.3.3 Different Readings; 5.4 DeRose on 'Might' Sentences; 5.5 Supervenience; 5.6 Objective and Metaphysical Possibility; 6 Conclusion; Appendix A Non-Nominal Quantification; Name Index; Bibliography |
| Summary |
2012 GAP/ontos-Award for furthering scientific research in the field of analytical ontology and metaphysics. As philosophers are keen to say, there is a possible world where Socrates is a carpenter. Plausibly, truths about what might or could not be the case are not basic but grounded in more fundamental features of reality. Steinberg develops this insight into a novel account of the supervenience structure of the modal realm |
| Analysis |
Modal Logic |
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Modal Truth |
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Natural Language |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 19, 2013) |
| Subject |
Modality (Logic)
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Possibility.
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Realism.
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Supervenience (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
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Modality (Logic)
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Possibility
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Realism
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Supervenience (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110338232 |
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3110338238 |
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3110334895 |
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9783110334890 |
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