Ways a world might be : metaphysical and anti-metaphysical essays / Robert C. Stalnaker.

Robert Stalnaker draws together in this volume the extent of his work in metaphysics. The central theme is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The essays presented reflect on the nature of metaphysics, with two of the essays featured being published for...

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Main Author: Stalnaker, Robert
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon ; Oxford University Press, 2003.
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505 0 |a Possible worlds (1976/1984) -- On what possible worlds could not be (1996) -- Impossibilities (1996/2002) -- Anti-essentialism (1979) -- Varieties of supervenience (1996) -- Counterparts and identity (1987) -- Vague identity (1988) -- The interaction of modality with quantification and identity (1984) -- Reference and necessity (1997) -- On considering a possible world as an actual (2001) -- Conceptual truth and metaphysical necessity (2003) -- Comparing qualia across persons (2000) -- What is it like to be a zombie? (2002) -- On Thomas Nagel's objective self (2003). 
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