Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences : : Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65 / / ed. by Allén Sture.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Literary and Cultural Studies - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Allén, Sture,; Bell, J.S,; Billeskov Jansen, Frederik Julius,; Danto, Arthur C.,; Doležel, Lubomír,; Eco, Umberto,; Enkvist, Nils Erik,; Frängsmyr, Tore,; Gustafsson, Bengt,; Gyllensten, Lars,; Heydrich, Wolfgang,; Hintikka, Jaakko,; Johannesson, Kurt,; Jonsson, Inge,; Kuhn, Thomas S.,; Levin, Samuel R.,; Linde, Ulf,; Miller, Arthur I.,; Nagel, Bengt,; Olsson, Gunnar,; Partee, Barbara H.,; Pavel, Thomas,; Pecker, Jean-Claude,; Perry, John,; Petöfi, János S.,; Rees, Martin J.,; Rieser, Hannes,; Régnier, Gérard,; Shea, William R.,; Teleman, Ulf,; Thirring, Walter,; Wolterstorff, Nicholas,; Åberg, Claes,
• HerausgeberIn: Sture, Allén,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Research in Text Theory : Untersuchungen zur Texttheorie ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (453 p.)

Table of Contents

I-X -- Opening Address -- Session 1: Philosophy -- Possible Worlds in History of Science -- Discussion of Thomas S. Kuhn’s paper “Possible Worlds in History of Science” -- Discussion of Thomas S. Kuhn’s paper “Possible Worlds in History of Science” -- Speaker’s Reply -- Exploring Possible Worlds -- On Doughnutting. Discussion of Jaakko Hintikka’s paper “Exploring Possible Worlds” -- Transworld Journeys. Report on Session 1: Philosophy -- Session 2: Linguistics -- Possible Worlds in Model-Theoretic Semantics: A Linguistic Perspective -- Possible Worlds and Subject Matter. Discussion of Barbara H. Partee’s paper “Possible Worlds in Model-Theoretic Semantics: A Linguistic Perspective” -- Some Caveats with Respect to Possible Worlds. Discussion of Barbara H. Partee’s paper “Possible Worlds in Model-Theoretic Semantics: A Linguistic Perspective” -- Speaker’s Reply -- Connexity, Interpretability, Universes of Discourse, and Text Worlds -- Possible Worlds and Enkvist’s Worlds. Discussion of Nils Erik Enkvist’s paper “Connexity, Interpretability, Universes of Discourse, and Text Worlds” -- The World of Words – and Pictures. Discussion of Nils Erik Enkvist’s paper “Connexity, Interpretability, Universes of Discourse, and Text Worlds” -- Possible Worlds – Text Worlds. Quo vadis Linguistica? Report on Session 2: Linguistics -- Session 3: Literature and Arts -- Possible Worlds and Literary Fictions -- Discussion of Lubomír Doležel’s paper “Possible Worlds and Literary Fictions” -- Fictional Worlds and the Economy of the Imaginary -- Duality and Deviance: Two Semantic Modes. Discussion of Thomas Pavel’s paper “Fictional Worlds and the Economy of the Imaginary” -- Fictional and Ontological Landscapes. Discussion of Thomas Pavel’s paper “Fictional Worlds and the Economy of the Imaginary” -- Possible Worlds – A Chorus of a Multitude of Souls. A Writer’s Perspective -- Possible Worlds: A Historical Perspective in Literature. Discussion of Lars Gyllensten’s paper “Possible Worlds – A Chorus of a Multitude of Souls. A Writer’s Perspective” -- Possible Worlds – But for Whom? Discussion of Lars Gyllensten’s paper “Possible Worlds – A Chorus of a Multitude of Souls. A Writer’s Perspective” -- Speaker’s Reply -- Image and Dimension -- Pictorial Possibility. Discussion of Ulf Linde’s paper “Image and Dimension” -- Discussion of Ulf Linde’s paper “Image and Dimension” -- Report on Session 3: Literature and Arts -- Session 4: Natural Science -- Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics -- On Characterizing Possible Worlds of Physics. Discussion of J. S. Bell’s paper “Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics” -- Discussion of J. S. Bell’s paper “Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics” -- Our Universe and Others: The Limits of Space, Time and Physics -- How to Describe Physical Reality? Discussion of Martin J. Rees’s paper “Our Universe and Others: The Limits of Space, Time and Physics” -- The Uniformity of the Universe. Discussion of Martin J. Rees’s paper “Our Universe and Others: The Limits of Space, Time and Physics” -- Report on Session 4: Natural Science -- List of Contributors -- 454