The Metaphysics of Modality

by Graeme Forbes

Book Overview

Analytic philosophy has recently demonstrated a revived interest in metaphysical problems about possibility and necessity. Graeme Forbes here provides a careful description of the logical background of recent work in this area for those who may be unfamiliar with it, moving on to discuss the distinction between modality de re and modality de dicto and the ontological commitments of possible worlds semantics. In addition, Forbes offers a unified theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198244339
• ISBN13: 9780198244332
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"