The worlds of possibility : modal realism and the semantics of modal logic /

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Author / Creator:Chihara, Charles S., 1932-
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description:xii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3826906
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ISBN:0198237677 (alk. paper)
Notes:This book grew out of the author's lectures given Mar. 1991 at the University of Notre Dame and some materials were given in courses and seminars at various institutions.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-336) and index.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Possible Worlds Semantics.  |g 1.  |t An S5 Modal Quantificational Logic.  |g 2.  |t Objections Raised by Plantinga and his Supporters --  |g 2.  |t Transworld Identity.  |g 1.  |t The Problem of Transworld Identity.  |g 2.  |t Forbes's Solution.  |g 3.  |t Doubts about Forbes's Solution.  |g 4.  |t Plantinga's Solution.  |g 5.  |t Lewis's Solution --  |g 3.  |t Modal Realism.  |g 1.  |t Lewis's Modal Realism: Exposition.  |g 2.  |t Is Lewis's Analysis of Modality Correct?  |g 3.  |t Lewis's Justification for Possible Worlds.  |g 4.  |t Two Objections to Lewis's Modal Realism.  |g 5.  |t A Critique of Lewis's Views on Knowledge.  |g 6.  |t Additional Doubts about Lewis's Analyses.  |g 7.  |t Doubts about Lewis's Justification of his Mathematical Realism.  |g 8.  |t Doubts about Lewis's Justification of his Modal Realism.  |g 9.  |t Magical Ersatzism.  |g 10.  |t Plantinga's Actualistic Modal Realism.  |g 11.  |t Jager's Applied Semantics.  |g 12.  |t Paradoxes in Plantinga's Ontological Theory --  |g 4.  |t Anti-Modal Realism.  |g 1.  |t Forbes's Anti-Realism: Exposition.  |g 2.  |t Forbes's Anti-Realism: Some Doubts.  |g 3.  |t Modal Fictionalism: Exposition.  |g 4.  |t Modal Fictionalism: Problems and Doubts --  |g 5.  |t The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic.  |g 1.  |t Interpretational and Representational Semantics.  |g 2.  |t The Semantics of the Sentential Calculus.  |g 3.  |t Davidson's Problem.  |g 4.  |t A Connecting Theorem.  |g 5.  |t The Semantics of First-Order Logic --  |g 6.  |t Modality without Worlds I: The Semantics of Modal Sentential Logic.  |g 1.  |t An S5 Modal Sentential Calculus.  |g 2.  |t C-Sentences.  |g 3.  |t NL Proto-Interpretations that Conform to C-Sequences.  |g 4.  |t Connecting Theorems.  |g 5.  |t The Anti-Realist Account --  |g 7.  |t Modality without Worlds II: The Semantics of Modal Quantificational Logic.  |g 1.  |t Actualism and Serious Actualism.  |g 2.  |t The Serious Actualistic Compossibility System.  |g 3.  |t Satisfaction Under an S5 Interpretation.  |g 4.  |t NL Interpretations of M*.  |g 5.  |t The Fundamental Theorem.  |g 6.  |t Some Consequences --  |g 8.  |t Modality without Worlds III: Explorations, Developments, and Defences.  |g 1.  |t The Anti-Realist Position.  |g 2.  |t Analysing the Forbes and Plantinga Examples.  |g 3.  |t The Plantinga Konyndyk Objection.  |g 4.  |t The Problem of Transworld Identity Revisited.  |g 5.  |t Problems, Worries, and Uses.  |g 6.  |t My Modal Analysis does not Eliminate Modality.  |g 7.  |t Ontological Commitment to Worlds or Ways? --  |g 9.  |t Anti-Realism in Mathematics.  |g 1.  |t Mathematical Realism.  |g 2.  |t Maddy's Set Theoretic Realism.  |g 3.  |t A Gothic Tale.  |g 4.  |t The Ontology of Mathematics.  |g 5.  |t Some Misunderstandings and Criticisms.  |g 6.  |t The Vagueness Argument.  |g 7.  |t The Burgess Rosen Evaluation.  |g 8.  |t Reply to the Gillies-Wolenski Objection.  |g 9.  |t A Circularity? 
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