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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b12943346.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description "I. Ways and Worlds -- 1. Possible Worlds -- 2. On what Possible Worlds could not be -- 3. Impossibilities -- II. Carving up Logical Space -- 4. Anti-essentialism -- 5. Varieties of Supervenience -- III. Identity in and across Possible Worlds -- 6. Counterparts and Identity -- 7. Vague Identity -- 8. Interaction of Modality with Quantification and Identity -- IV. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics -- 9. References and Necessity -- 10. On considering a Possible World as Actual -- 11. Conceptual Truth and Metaphysical Necessity -- V. Subjective Possibilities -- 12. Comparing Qualia across Persons -- 13. What is it like to be a Zombie? -- 14. On Thomas Nagel's Objective Self.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-281) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "ix, 287 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199251487".
- catalog identifier "0199251495 (pbk.) :".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "110 21".
- catalog subject "BD111 .S73 2003".
- catalog subject "Metaphysics.".
- catalog subject "Modality (Logic)".
- catalog subject "Possibility.".
- catalog subject "Supervenience (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Ways and Worlds -- 1. Possible Worlds -- 2. On what Possible Worlds could not be -- 3. Impossibilities -- II. Carving up Logical Space -- 4. Anti-essentialism -- 5. Varieties of Supervenience -- III. Identity in and across Possible Worlds -- 6. Counterparts and Identity -- 7. Vague Identity -- 8. Interaction of Modality with Quantification and Identity -- IV. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics -- 9. References and Necessity -- 10. On considering a Possible World as Actual -- 11. Conceptual Truth and Metaphysical Necessity -- V. Subjective Possibilities -- 12. Comparing Qualia across Persons -- 13. What is it like to be a Zombie? -- 14. On Thomas Nagel's Objective Self.".
- catalog title "Ways a world might be : metaphysical and anti-metaphysical essays / Robert C. Stalnaker.".
- catalog type "text".