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  title info:
    title: Being necessary
    sub title: themes of ontology and modality from the work of Bob Hale
  name:
    name part: Fred Rivera, Ivette
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Leech, Jessica
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 290 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: What is the relationship between ontology and modality - between what there is, and what there could be, must be, or might have been? Bob Hale interwove these two strands of metaphysics throughout his long and distinguished career, putting forward his theses in his book, Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them (OUP 2013). Hale addressed questions of ontology and modality on a number of fronts: through the development of a Fregean approach to ontology, an essentialist theory of modality, and in his work on neo-logicism in the philosophy of mathematics. The essays in this volume engage with these themes in Hale's work in order to progress our understanding of ontology, modality, and the relations between them. Some directly address questions in modal metaphysics, drawing on ontological concerns, while others raise questions in modal epistemology and of its links to matters of ontology, such as the challenge to give an epistemology of essence. Several essays also engage with questions of what might be called 'modal ontology': the study of whether and what things exist necessarily or contingently. Such issues have an important bearing on the kinds of semantic commitments engendered in logic and mathematics (to the existence of sets, or numbers, or properties, and so on) and the extent to which one's ontology of necessary beings interacts with other plausible assumptions and commitments.
  note: edited by Ivette Fred-Rivera and Jessica Leech.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hale, Bob
      name part: 1945-
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
  subject:
    topic: Modality (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: Modality (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
  classification: BD311 .B44 2018
  classification: 111
  identifier: 9780198792161
  identifier: 0198792166
  identifier: 2018936570
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 180315
    record change date: 20190422104453.0
    record identifier: in00004032626
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng