Modality and tense : philosophical papers /

In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fine, Kit
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Issues in the Philosophy of language. Reference, essence, and identity
  • The problem of De Re modality
  • Quine on quantifying in
  • pt. 2. Issues in Ontology. Prior on the construction of possible worlds and instants
  • Plantinga on the reduction of possibilist discourse
  • The problem of possibilia
  • pt. 3. Issues in Metaphysics. The varieties of necessity
  • Tense and reality
  • Necessity and non-existence
  • pt. 4. Reviews. Review of 'Counterfactuals' by David Lewis
  • Review of 'The Nature of Necessity' by Alvin Plantinga.