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Author: Ruth Barcan Marcus (Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Philosophy, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 23.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 15.40cm
Weight: 0.404kg
ISBN: 9780195096576
ISBN 10: 0195096576
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 24 August 1995
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Marcus is a brilliant, original, learned, tenacious, and productive scholar ... this review of the development of her thought, its connections with some important historical figures, and her differences with other contemporary philosophers [is] of great value. David Kaplan, University of California
""The essays collected here are enduring contributions that have deeply affected the course of twentieth-century philosophy. Reading them together reminds one forcefully of the ingenuity, power, and unity of thought of a most philosophical logician, and a most logical philosopher.""--Review of Metaphysics ""Collects most of Marcus's profoundly influential attempts to illuminate the formal structure and metaphysical underpinnings of model discourse....Provides an extraordinary feast of reason and imagination; it is deeply provocative and contains some of the most influential philosophy of this century.""--Journal of Philosophy ""Marcus's ideas on identity an naming that are so carefully presented in the essays of Modalities have become part of the fabric of contemporary philosophy. Her theory of belief is exciting and potentially just as important....Modalities unquestionably belongs on the bookshelf of every philosopher.""--British Journal for the Philosophy of Science ""[An] admirable book....Marcus's contributions to philosophical logic, which have been relatively neglected, are impressive; and I hope the publication of this book will help give her work the recognition it deserves.""--International Journal of Philosophical Studies ""I enthusiastically recommend this book to those interested in either contemporary or historical issues related to Marcus's work....An interesting and relevant collection.""--The Philosophical Review ""The essays collected here are enduring contributions that have deeply affected the course of twentieth-century philosophy. Reading them together reminds one forcefully of the ingenuity, power, and unity of thought of a most philosophical logician, and a most logical philosopher.""--Review of Metaphysics ""Collects most of Marcus's profoundly influential attempts to illuminate the formal structure and metaphysical underpinnings of model discourse....Provides an extraordinary feast of reason and imagination; it is deeply provocative and contains some of the most influential philosophy of this century.""--Journal of Philosophy ""Marcus's ideas on identity an naming that are so carefully presented in the essays of Modalities have become part of the fabric of contemporary philosophy. Her theory of belief is exciting and potentially just as important....Modalities unquestionably belongs on the bookshelf of every philosopher.""--British Journal for the Philosophy of Science ""[An] admirable book....Marcus's contributions to philosophical logic, which have been relatively neglected, are impressive; and I hope the publication of this book will help give her work the recognition it deserves.""--International Journal of Philosophical Studies ""I enthusiastically recommend this book to those interested in either contemporary or historical issues related to Marcus's work....An interesting and relevant collection.""--The Philosophical Review ""The great contribution Marcus has made to several of intensely discussed topics in philosophy might not have been noticed fully without this collection of some of her most important articles that makes it evident that her achievement is not limited to inventing the famous Barcan formula.""--Erkenntnis ""Marcus's ideas on identity and naming that are so carefully presented in the essays of Modalities have become part of the fabric of contemporary philosophy. Her theory of belief is exciting and potentially just as important....Modalities unquestionably belongs on the bookshelf of every philosopher.""--British Journal of the Philosophy of Science."" ""The whole picture which emerges from this book is of someone at the centre of the philosophical stage for many years, engaging in the most disfficult areas of the subject and provoking and being provoked by the finest minds in the discipline, among whom we must certainly count Marcus herself.""--Phil. & Phen. Research ""The appearance of this nicely edited collection of fifteen of [the author's] most important philosophical papers, reprinted with minor revisions and corrections, is most opportune, as this often seminal work has recently begun to receive the recognition it deserves.""--Mathematical Reviews
Marcus is a brilliant, original, learned, tenacious, and productive scholar ... this review of the development of her thought, its connections with some important historical figures, and her differences with other contemporary philosophers [is] of great value. * David Kaplan, University of California *
