Modalities, Identity, Belief, and Moral Dilemmas : : Themes from Barcan Marcus / / ed. by Michael Frauchiger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Engel, Pascal,; Frauchiger, Michael,; Føllesdal, Dagfinn,; Marcus, Ruth Barcan,; Morscher, Edgar,; Olsson, Erik J.,; Proust, Joëlle,; Williamson, Timothy,
• HerausgeberIn: Frauchiger, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Lauener Library of Analytical Philosophy , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (173 p.)

This volume opens up stimulating new perspectives on a broad variety of Barcan Marcus’s concerns ranging from the systematic foundation and interpretation of quantified modal logic, nature of extensionality, necessity of identity, direct reference theory for proper names, notions of essentialism, second-order modal logic, modal metaphysics, properties and classes, substitutional and objectual quantification, actualism, the Barcan formula, possibilia and possible-world semantics to epistemic and deontic modalities, non-language-centered theories of belief, accounts of rationality, consistency of a moral code, moral dilemmas, and much more. The contributions demonstrate that Barcan Marcus’s original and clear ideas have had a formative influence on the direction in which certain themes central to today’s philosophical debate have developed. Furthermore, the volume includes an illuminating intellectual autobiography from Barcan Marcus herself as well as an informal interview containing her unfiltered, frank answers. The book brings together contributions by Ruth Barcan Marcus, Timothy Williamson, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Joëlle Proust, Pascal Engel, Edgar Morscher, Erik J. Olsson, and Michael Frauchiger.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Modalities, Identity, Belief, and Moral Dilemmas -- Contents -- Proem: Highlighting Ruth Barcan Marcus’s Courageous Philosophical Life and Work -- Laudatio: Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921‒2012) -- A Philosopher’s Calling -- Ruth Marcus, Modal Logic and Rigid Reference -- Barcan Formulas in Second-Order Modal Logic -- Is Identity a Functional Property? -- Barcan Marcus on Belief and Rationality -- Ruth Barcan Marcus on Believing Without a Language -- Moral Dilemmas: From a Logical and from a Moral Point of View -- Interview with Ruth Barcan Marcus -- Contributors -- Index