Possible worlds / Rod Girle.

The idea of a possible world that differs in some way from our "actual" world - a world where, for example, the grass is red or no people exist - can help us analyse and understand a wide range of philosophical concepts, such as counterfactuals, properties, modality, and the notions of pos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Girle, Rod (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:	Possibility. Necessity (Philosophy) Modality (Logic) PHILOSOPHY > Logic. PHILOSOPHY > General. Possibility Sprachlogik Modale logica. Mogelijke werelden.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

The nature of paradox
Paradox and contradiction
Believing in surprises : the prediction paradox
The preface paradox, fallibility and probability
The lottery paradox
Newcomb's problem
The prisoner's dilemma
The sorites paradox.

Possible worlds / Rod Girle.

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