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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Modality and anti-metaphysics
  name:
    name part: McLeod, Stephen K.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Aldershot, England
    place:
      place term: Burlington, VT
    publisher: Ashgate
    date issued: ©2001
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 186 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "Modality and Anti-Metaphysics critically examines the most prominent approaches to modality among analytic philosophers in the twentieth century, including essentialism. Defending both the project of metaphysics and the essentialist position that metaphysical modality is conceptually and ontologically primitive, Stephen McLeod argues that the logical positivists did not succeed in banishing metaphysical modality from their own theoretical apparatus and he offers an original defence of metaphysics against their advocacy of its elimination." "Seeking to assuage the sceptical worries which underlie modal anti-realism, McLeod provides an original contribution to essentialist epistemology, engaging with current debates about modality and suggesting that standard essentialist approaches to some issues in the philosophies of logic and language require revision." "This book offers valuable insights to professional philosophers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in metaphysics, philosophy of logic or the history of twentieth-century analytic philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
  table of contents: The Elimination of Metaphysics -- Empiricist Anti-Metaphysics -- Wittgenstein, Metaphysics and Essentialism -- Modal Primitivism -- Primitivism, Eliminativism and Reductionism -- Modal Epistemology -- A Defence of Modal Primitivism -- Modal Realism -- Anti-Realism I: Against Projectivism -- Realism -- Anti-Realism II: Against Anti-Realist Conceptualism -- Modality and Anti-Metaphysics -- De Re and De Dicto -- Empiricism, Verifiability, Modality -- Logical Possibility as Typically De Dicto -- Logical Possibility: Its Nature and Value -- Closing Remark: Empiricism and Essentialism.
  note: Stephen K. McLeod.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-176) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Modality (Logic)
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: First philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Modalité (Logique)
  subject:
    topic: Métaphysique
  subject:
    topic: metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: First philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Modality (Logic)
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysik
  subject:
    topic: Modalität
  subject:
    topic: Modaliteit
  subject:
    topic: Taalfilosofie
  subject:
    topic: Metafysica
  subject:
    topic: Modality (Logic)
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  classification: BC199.M6 M35 2001
  classification: 110
  classification: 08.31
  classification: 5,1
  classification: CC 6000
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 000822
    record change date: 20240625170544.0
    record identifier: in00001655102
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng