Modal Logic as Metaphysics

Author:   Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199552078


Pages:   482
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   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:  

9780199552078


ISBN 10:   019955207
Pages:   482
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 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 Index

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a 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


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Timothy 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.

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