The Nature of Necessity (Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy)

Type

Book

Authors

Alvin Plantinga

ISBN 10

0198244142

ISBN 13

9780198244141

Tags

Classics, Logic & Language, Metaphysics, Literature, Logic, Books

Description

This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. Plantinga develops his argument by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over such key problems as the nature of essence, transworld identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. He also applies his logical theories to the elucidation of two problems in the philosophy of religion: the problem of evil and the ontological argument. - from Amzon

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