The worlds of possibility : modal realism and the semantics of modal logic /
Modal realism is the philosophical doctrine that there exist many possible worlds, of which the actual world is just one. This volume offers a critical exposition of the theory.
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Possible Worlds Semantics
- An S5 Modal Quantificational Logic
- Objections Raised by Plantinga and his Supporters
- Transworld Identity
- The Problem of Transworld Identity
- Forbes's Solution
- Doubts about Forbes's Solution
- Plantinga's Solution
- Lewis's Solution
- Modal Realism
- Lewis's Modal Realism: Exposition
- Is Lewis's Analysis of Modality Correct?
- Lewis's Justification for Possible Worlds
- Two Objections to Lewis's Modal Realism
- A Critique of Lewis's Views on Knowledge
- Additional Doubts about Lewis's Analyses
- Doubts about Lewis's Justification of his Mathematical Realism
- Doubts about Lewis's Justification of his Modal Realism
- Magical Ersatzism
- Plantinga's Actualistic Modal Realism
- Jager's Applied Semantics
- Paradoxes in Plantinga's Ontological Theory
- Anti-Modal Realism
- Forbes's Anti-Realism: Exposition
- Forbes's Anti-Realism: Some Doubts
- Modal Fictionalism: Exposition
- Modal Fictionalism: Problems and Doubts
- The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic
- Interpretational and Representational Semantics
- The Semantics of the Sentential Calculus
- Davidson's Problem
- A Connecting Theorem
- The Semantics of First-Order Logic
- Modality Without Worlds I: The Semantics of Modal Sentential Logic
- An S5 Modal Sentential Calculus
- C-Sentences
- NL Proto-Interpretations that Conform to C-Sequences
- Connecting Theorems
- The Anti-Realist Account
- Modality Without Worlds II: The Semantics of Modal Quantificational Logic
- Actualism and Serious Actualism.