The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds.

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The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds.

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The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

by Charles S. Chihara
The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

by Charles S. Chihara

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A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199246557
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 10/28/2001
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Possible Worlds Semantics
2. Transworld Identity
3. Modal Realism
4. Forbes's Anti-Modal Realism
5. The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic
6. Modality without Worlds: The Semantics of Modal Sentential Logic
7. Quantificational Logic
8. Modality without Worlds: Explorations, Developments, and Defences
9. Anti-Realism in Mathematics
Bibliography
Index

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