Worlds of Possibility - Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

Informationen zum Autor Charles S. Chihara is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that there exists many possible worlds of which the actual world is just one. It argues for modality without worlds and offers an account of the role of interpretations or structures of the formal languages of logic. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Charles S. Chihara, Charles S. ( Chihara, Charles S. (University of California Chihara, Chihara Charles S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2001
• EAN: 9780199246557
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924655-7
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: logic, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc