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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
May 19, 2013
Pages
464
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780199552078
ISBN-10
019955207X
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.80 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$44.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the basis of an integrated approach to the issues, applying the technical resources of modal logic to provide structural cores for metaphysical theories. He rejects the search for a metaphysically neutral logic as futile. The book contains detailed historical discussion of how the metaphysical issues emerged in the twentieth century development of quantified modal logic, through the work of such figures as Rudolf Carnap, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Arthur Prior, and Saul Kripke. It proposes higher-order modal logic as a new setting in which to resolve such metaphysical questions scientifically, by the construction of systematic logical theories embodying rival answers and their comparison by normal scientific standards. Williamson provides both a rigorous introduction to the technical background needed to understand metaphysical questions in quantified modal logic and an extended argument for controversial, provocative answers to them. He gives original, precise treatments of topics including the relation between logic and metaphysics, the methodology of theory choice in philosophy, the nature of possible worlds and their role in semantics, plural quantification compared to quantification into predicate position, communication across metaphysical disagreement, and problems for truthmaker theory.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Oxford Univ Pr (May 19, 2013)
9780199552078 | details & prices | 464 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.80 lbs | List price $44.95
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Paperback
Reprint edition from Oxford Univ Pr (April 26, 2015)
9780198709435 | details & prices | 464 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $28.95
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