A Chance for Possibility : : An Investigation into the Grounds of Modality / / Alexander Steinberg.
A Chance for Possibility defends the view that the objective modal realm is tripartite: truths about possible worlds supervene on modal truths, which in turn supervene on truths about objective chances.An understanding of supervenience in terms of grounding is developed which - unlike the standard m...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Supervenience
- Chapter 3. Concrete Possible Worlds
- Chapter 4. Abstract Possible Worlds
- Chapter 5. Possibility and Probability
- Chapter 6. Conclusion
- Appendix A. Non-Nominal Quantification
- Name Index
- Bibliography