Bob Hale

Necessary Beings

An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them

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Produktbeschreibung

Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things¿not in meanings or concepts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198748038
• ISBN-10: 0198748035
• Artikelnr.: 47868314

Autorenporträt

Bob Hale, Sheffield University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Ontological preliminaries
2: The necessity of necessity
3: Irreducible modality
4: Absolute Modality
5: The Source of Logical Necessities
6: Metaphysical Necessities
7: Necessary beings: properties and numbers
8: Higher-order logics
9: Contingent beings
10: Possibilities
11: Essential knowledge
Bibliography
Index