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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.834kg ISBN: 9780199552078ISBN 10: 019955207 Pages: 482 Publication Date: 28 March 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface 1: Contingentism and Necessitism 2: The Barcan Formula and its Converse: Early Developments 3: Possible Worlds Model Theory 4: Predication and Modality 5: From First-Order to Higher-Order Modal Logic 6: Intensional Comprehension Principles and Metaphysics 7: Mappings between Contingentist and Necessitist Discourse 8: Consequences of necessitism Methodological Afterword Bibliography IndexReviewsa very important addition to the literature... clear, meticulous, and ingenious... This tightly argued book contains a large number of interesting arguments, claims, observations, and comments on a wide variety of topics in modal logic and metaphysics. It reminds us that there is much useful philosophizing to be done beyond an incredulous stare. Takashi Yagisawa, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Author InformationTimothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College Oxford. He was previously Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, and has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, and as a visitor at MIT, Princeton, the Australian National University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and elsewhere. He has published dentity and Discrimination (Wiley-Blackwell, 1990), Vagueness (Routledge, 1994), Knowledge and its Limits (Clarendon Press, 2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and many articles on logic and philosophy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |