| Description |
1 online resource (x, 268 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Mind Association occasional series
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Mind Association occasional series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The limits of contingency / Gideon Rosen -- Modal infallibilism and basic truth / Scott Sturgeon -- The modal fictionalist predicament / John Divers and Jason Hagen -- On realism about chance / Philip Percival -- Structure and identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The identity problem for realist structuralism II : a reply to Shapiro / Jukka Keränen -- The governance of identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The Julius Caesar objection : more problematic than ever / Fraser MacBride -- Sortals and the binding problem / John Campbell -- Vagueness and personal identity / Keith Hossack -- Is there a bodily criterion of personal identity? / Eric T. Olson. |
| Summary |
The eleven new papers in this volume address fundamental and interrelated philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that were pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century, and remain a key focus of debate in the twenty-first. Identity and Modality brings together leading researchers in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics. - ;The papers in this volume address fundamental, and interrelated, philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that have not only been pivotal to. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Congresses.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Modality (Theory of knowledge) -- Congresses.
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Modality (Theory of knowledge) |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
MacBride, Fraser.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Identity and modality. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006009859 |
| ISBN |
019153658X (electronic book) |
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9780191536588 (electronic book) |
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0199285748 (Cloth) |
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9780199285747 |
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