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Ways a World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays

By Robert C. Stalnaker

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0199251487, 9780199251483, 0199251495, 9780199251490
LCC
BC199.M6 S73 2003
Open Library ID
OL22537478M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3105308 bytes)
Pages
297\297
DPI
300
Time added
2013-06-04 20:35:26

Description

Robert Stalnaker draws together in this volume his seminal work in metaphysics. The central theme is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The book begins with reflections on the general idea of a possible world, and then uses the framework of possible worlds to formulate and clarify some questions about properties and individuals, reference, thought, and experience. The essays also reflect on the nature of metaphysics, and on the relation between questions about what there is and questions about how we talk and think about what there is. Two of the fourteen essays, plus an extensive introduction that sets the papers in context and draws out the essays' common threads, are published here for the first time.

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