The Nature of Necessity / Edition 1

by Alvin Plantinga

Overview

This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. Plantinga develops his argument by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over such key problems as the nature of essence, transworld identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. He also applies his logical theories to the elucidation of two problems in the philosophy of religion: the problem of evil and the ontological argument.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198244141
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	03/15/1979
Series:	Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1200L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Notre Dame

Editorial Reviews

"Interesting and original."—Times Higher Education Supplement

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