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Author:   Phillip Bricker (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.884kg
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9780199676569

ISBN 10:   0199676569
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   16 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Reality 1: Introduction: A Sketch of Reality (2018) 2: Realism Without Parochialism (1992) Part 2: Possible Worlds Realism and Actuality 3: Concrete Possible Worlds (2008) 4: Island Universes and the Analysis of Modality (2001) 5: Absolute Actuality and the Plurality of Worlds (2006) 6: Isolation and Unification: The Realist Analysis of Possible Worlds (1996) 7: Reducing Possible Worlds to Language (1987) 8: Quantified Modal Logic and the Plural De Re (1989) Part 3: Modal Plenitude 9: Principles of Plenitude (1986) 10: Plenitude of Possible Structures (1991) 11: All Worlds in One: Reassessing the Forrest-Armstrong Argument (2011/2018) 12: On Living Forever (1985) Part 4: Humean Perspectives on Truthmaking, Mereology, Spacetime, and Quantities 13: Truthmaking: With and Without Counterpart Theory (2015) 14: The Relation Between General and Particular: Entailment vs. Supervenience (2006) 15: Composition as a Kind of Identity (2016) 16: Composition as Identity, Leibniz's Law, and Slice-Sensitive Emergent Properties (2018) 17: The Fabric of Space: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Distance Relations (1993) 18: Is There a Humean Account of Quantities? (2017)

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...this text will be extremely valuable for students of logic and metaphysics in the analytic tradition... Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * F. A. Grabowski, CHOICE *

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Phillip Bricker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published mostly in metaphysics, especially the metaphysics of modality. His philosophical interests range broadly over metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, formal epistemology, history of analytic philosophy, and philosophical and mathematical logic.

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