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Berto and Jago question how to understand the impossible without collapsing into total incoherence. By considering the metaphysics of impossible worlds - and applying this concept to issues in logic, semantics, and philosophy - they offer a framework for obtaining a metaphysical, logical, and concep...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Berto, Francesco (Author), Jago, Mark (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Metaphysics.
Possibility.
Metaphysics
Métaphysique.
Possibilité.
metaphysics.
Philosophy: logic.
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Possibility
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I : Impossibilities
  • 1. From possible to impossible worlds
  • 2. Metaphysics
  • 3. Ersatz modal realism
  • Part II : Logical applications
  • 4. Modal logics
  • 5. Epistemic logics
  • 6. Relevant logics
  • 7. The logic of imagination
  • Part III : Philosophical applications
  • 8. Hyperintensionality
  • 9. Information and content
  • 10. Epistemic and doxastic contents
  • 11. Fiction and fictional objects
  • 12. counterpossible conditionals.