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

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, se...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Lauener Library of Analytical Philosophy , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (173 p.)
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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