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Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds de Prof Alexander R. Pruss

Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds: Continuum Studies in Philosophy of Religion

Autor Prof Alexander R. Pruss
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iul 2011
Actuality, Possibility and Worlds is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible.

The notion of possible worlds appears to be useful for many purposes, such as the analysis of counterfactuals or elucidating the nature of propositions and properties. This usefulness of possible worlds makes for a second general question: Are there any possible worlds and, if so, what are they? Are they concrete universes as David Lewis thinks, Platonic abstracta as per Robert M. Adams and Alvin Plantinga, or maybe linguistic or mathematical constructs such as Heller thinks? Or is perhaps Leibniz right in thinking that possibilia are not on par with actualities and that abstracta can only exist in a mind, so that possible worlds are ideas in the mind of God?

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441145161
ISBN-10: 1441145168
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Continuum Studies in Philosophy of Religion

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface

Part I. Introduction


Section 1 Generic definitions and basic modal realism


Section 2 Metaphysical versus logical possibility?


Section 3 S5


Section 4 Eight views of possibility



Part II. Applications and pseudo-applications


Section 1 Modality


Section 2 Counterfactuals and causality


Section 3 Propositions


Section 4 Properties


Section 5 Overall assessment





Part III. The Lewisian ontology of extreme modal realism


Section 1 The Lewisian account of possible worlds


Section 2 Identity vs. counterpart theory


Section 3 Indiscernible worlds?


Section 4 Lewis's arguments for his ontology


Section 5 Objections to Lewis's account of actuality


Section 6 The possibility of spatio-temporally unrelated co-actual entities


Section 7 Cardinality and the "set" of all possible worlds


Section 8 Ethical issues


Section 9 Induction and actuality


Section 10 The epistemological objection


Section 11 Explaining the actual in terms of the necessary
Section 12 A final assessment of extreme modal realism





Part IV. Platonic ersatz ontologies


Section 1 The general strategy


Section 2 Linguistic approaches


Section 3 Platonism
Section 4 Conclusions





Part V. Sketches towards a Spinozistic-Tractarian account of modality


Section 1 Asserting, naming and infallibility


Section 2 Spinoza


Section 3 A radical theory of modality


Section 4 Costs


Section 5 The less radical theory





Part VI. Aristotelian-Leibnizian ontology


Section 1 Leibniz's approach


Section 2 Aristotelian possibility and causality


Section 3 Combining with the Spinozistic-Tractarian view


Section 4 Ordinary alethic modal talk


Section 5 The Principle of Sufficient Reason


Section 6 Ontology and implications


Section 7 The main challenges to Lewisian and Platonic ontologies can be resolved
Section 9 Objections to the A-L view


Part VII. Final conclusions


Section 1 Cost-benefit arguments for the Aristotelian-Leibnizian ontology of possible worlds


Section 2 Choosing between accounts of possibility

Bibliography

Recenzii

"In this book Alexander Pruss cogently argues the merits of an Aristotelian account that takes possibilities to inhere in the causal power of things. His instructive and insightful approach will be of interest to anyone concerned with the metaphysics of modality." -- Nicholas Rescher, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA.