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ARL-TR volume 4115
Publisher
Army Research Laboratory
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This book sets out a Kant-inspired theory of modality, driven by a methodology which takes seriously questions about the function of modal judgment as a guide to a metaphysics of modality. It argues that we need logical modal concepts as a condition on our ability to think, and metaphysical modal concepts as a condition on our ability to think objectively. Concordant with this, it argues that logical necessity has its source in the laws of thought...
Author
Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true." "After putting forward the type of modal realism he favors, Lewis answers numerous objections that have been raised against it....
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Propositional quantifiers are quantifiers binding proposition letters, understood as variables. This Element introduces propositional quantifiers and explains why they are especially interesting in the context of propositional modal logics. It surveys the main results on propositionally quantified modal logics which have been obtained in the literature, presents a number of open questions, and provides examples of applications of such logics to philosophical...