Modality, Morality and Belief

Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus
Herausgeber: Asher, Nicholas; Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter; Raffman, Diana

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Produktbeschreibung

Modality, morality, and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments, and develop new positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism, and the explanation of actions by beliefs. This "state-of-the-art" collection honors one of the most rigorous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780521100571
• ISBN-10: 0521100577
• Artikelnr.: 25616897

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Modality: 1. Ruth Barcan Marcus and the Barcan Formula Terence Parsons
2. The interaction of modality with quantification and identity Robert Stalnaker
3. S1 is not so simple Maxwell J. Cresswell
4. A problem in possible-world semantics David Kaplan
5. Senses of essence Kit Fine
6. Structuralism and the concept of set Charles Parsons
7. The Kant-Frege-Russell view of existence David Wiggins
Part II. Morality: 8. Moral dilemmas revisited Philippa Foot
9. Perspectival Guilt Patricia S. Greenspan
10. Instigating the unpredisposed Joel Feinberg
11. Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities Nuel Belnap and Paul Bartha
Part III. Belief: 12. Pierre, Saul, Ruth and Bob and a puzzle about belief Robert J. Fogelin
13. Closure and consistency Issac Levi
14. De Re Belief, action explanations and the essential indexical Ernest Sosa
15. T-sentences Scott Soames.