The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Max Cresswell is Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at the Victoria University of Wellington. He has published ten books, including Entities and Indices (1990), Language in the World (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and, with G. E. Hughes, A New Introduction to Modal Logic (1996).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Introduction Part I. Truth and Indexicality: 1. Semantical indices 2. Philosophical entities 3. Situated truth 4. The privileged position Part II. Predicate Logic: Tense and Modal: 5. A formal language 6. The non-existent 7. Multiple indexing 8. Time and world quantifiers Part III. Times and Worlds, or Tense and Modality?: 9. Primitive modality and primitive tense 10. 'Modalism' and 'tensism' 11. The present and the actual 12. Utterances 13. Relativity Part IV. De Rerum Natura: 14. Individuals and stages 15. Predicate wormism 16. Abstract and concrete 17. Supervenience Appendix 1. The equivalence of Lmulti, Lxtw and Li Appendix 2. Language and metalanguage Appendix 3. Plantinga's metaphysics Appendix 4. Interval semantics Appendix 5. Fatalism and the world-time parallel (with H. Kocurek) Bibliography Index.
Preface Introduction Part I. Truth and Indexicality: 1. Semantical indices 2. Philosophical entities 3. Situated truth 4. The privileged position Part II. Predicate Logic: Tense and Modal: 5. A formal language 6. The non-existent 7. Multiple indexing 8. Time and world quantifiers Part III. Times and Worlds, or Tense and Modality?: 9. Primitive modality and primitive tense 10. 'Modalism' and 'tensism' 11. The present and the actual 12. Utterances 13. Relativity Part IV. De Rerum Natura: 14. Individuals and stages 15. Predicate wormism 16. Abstract and concrete 17. Supervenience Appendix 1. The equivalence of Lmulti, Lxtw and Li Appendix 2. Language and metalanguage Appendix 3. Plantinga's metaphysics Appendix 4. Interval semantics Appendix 5. Fatalism and the world-time parallel (with H. Kocurek) Bibliography Index.
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