Daniel Nolan

Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds. Areas investigated include the theories of the nature of possible worlds, general questions about metaphysical analysis and questions about the direction of dependence between what is necessary or possible and what could be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415516303
• ISBN-10: 0415516307
• Artikelnr.: 57051889

Autorenporträt

Daniel Nolan teaches in the philosophy department at Macquarie University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: General Approach 1 Possible Worlds 2. Towards Explaining the
Connection Between Modality and Possible Worlds 3. Expressive Completeness
Without Possible Worlds: The Hazen Cases 4. Problems for Strong Modal
Fictionalism 5. Representing Aliens 6. Recombination Unbound 7. A Reduction
of Classes to Possible Worlds Recapitulation Appendix 1: Proofs of Chapter
7 Appendix 2: Trouble for Lewis' Main Thesis References