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In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module. |
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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.