Modalities : Philosophical Essays /

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Author / Creator:	Marcus, Ruth Barcan.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995, c1993.
Description:	xiv, 266 p. : ill.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:	Metaphysics. Ontology. Language and logic. Modality (Logic) Language and logic. Metaphysics. Modality (Logic) Ontology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6012737

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Varying Form of Title:	Title in Oxford Scholarship Online list: Modalities - Philosophical Essays Modalities
Other authors / contributors:	Oxford University Press.
ISBN:	0195096576 (pbk) 0195076982
Notes:	First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2004. (Oxford scholarship online). Mode of access: World Wide Web. Access restricted to subscribing institutions.
Standard no.:	9780195096576

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Modalities and Intensional Languages
3. Iterated Deontic Modalities
4. Essentialism in Modal Logic
5. Essential attribution
Appendix: Strict implication, deducibility and the deduction theorem
6. Quantification and ontology
7. Classes, collections, assortments, and individuals
8. Does the principle of substitutivity rest on a mistake?
9. Nominalism and the substitutional quantifier
10. Moral dilemmas and consistency
11. Rationality and believing the impossible
12. Spinoza and the ontological proof
13. On some post-1920s views of Russell on particularity, identity and individiation
14. Possibilia and possible worlds
15. A backward look at Quine's animadversions on modalities
16. Some revisionary proposals about belief and believing

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