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This book focuses on the question of how much variation in the properties of an individual object there can be, and if it remains the same object. It investigates competing strategies and engages with foundational questions about the metaphysics of modality.
List of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1: Logical tools
- 2: Tolerance Puzzles
- 3: Motivating Non-contingency
- 4: Coincidence Puzzles
- 5: Accepting Hypertolerance
- 6: Hypertolerance and supervenience
- 7: Rejecting Iteration
- 8: Iteration for metaphysical necessity
- 9: Tolerance and chance
- 10: Tolerance and counterpart theory
- 11: Resolving the puzzles
- 12: Refinements and choice points
- 13: Alternatives and challenges
- 14: Indiscernible Tolerance Arguments
- 15: Non-qualitativeness and aboutness
- Appendix A Modal logics
- Appendix B Rigidity and Ancestral Iteration
- Appendix C Consequences of the rigidity axioms
- Appendix D Narrower modalities in higher-order S4
About the author
Cian Dorr studied at University College, Cork and Princeton University. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and has previously held positions at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Oxford.
John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California and at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. He was previously Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Juhani Yli-Vakkuri is Senior Research Fellow at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic Unieversity. He was previously Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Tartu.
Summary
This book focuses on the question of how much variation in the properties of an individual object there can be, and if it remains the same object. It investigates competing strategies and engages with foundational questions about the metaphysics of modality.
Additional text
For any philosopher with a special interest in tolerance puzzles or the interpretation of de re modality, the book should be required reading.
