| Description |
1 online resource (x, 268 pages) |
| Series |
Mind Association occasional series |
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Mind Association occasional series.
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| Contents |
The limits of contingency / Gideon Rosen -- Modal infallibilism and basic truth / Scott Sturgeon -- The modal fictionalist predicament / John Divers and Jason Hagen -- On realism about chance / Philip Percival -- Structure and identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The identity problem for realist structuralism II : a reply to Shapiro / Jukka Keränen -- The governance of identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The Julius Caesar objection : more problematic than ever / Fraser MacBride -- Sortals and the binding problem / John Campbell -- Vagueness and personal identity / Keith Hossack -- Is there a bodily criterion of personal identity? / Eric T. Olson |
| Summary |
The eleven new papers in this volume address fundamental and interrelated philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that were pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century, and remain a key focus of debate in the twenty-first. Identity and Modality brings together leading researchers in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics. - ;The papers in this volume address fundamental, and interrelated, philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that have not only been pivotal to |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Congresses
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Modality (Theory of knowledge) -- Congresses
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Modality (Theory of knowledge)
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Modale logica.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
MacBride, Fraser.
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| ISBN |
019153658X |
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9780191536588 |
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