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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797815703321

Autore

Frauchiger Michael

Titolo

Modalities, identity, belief, and moral dilemmas : themes from Barcan Marcus / / edited by Michael Frauchiger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2015

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-042955-1

3-11-042972-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Lauener Library of Analytical Philosophy, , 2198-2155 ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Modality (Logic)

Logic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Modalities, Identity, Belief, and Moral Dilemmas -- Contents -- Proem: Highlighting Ruth Barcan Marcus’s Courageous Philosophical Life and Work -- Laudatio: Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921‒2012) -- A Philosopher’s Calling -- Ruth Marcus, Modal Logic and Rigid Reference -- Barcan Formulas in Second-Order Modal Logic -- Is Identity a Functional Property? -- Barcan Marcus on Belief and Rationality -- Ruth Barcan Marcus on Believing Without a Language -- Moral Dilemmas: From a Logical and from a Moral Point of View -- Interview with Ruth Barcan Marcus -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume opens up stimulating new perspectives on a broad variety of Barcan Marcus’s concerns ranging from the systematic foundation and interpretation of quantified modal logic, nature of extensionality, necessity of identity, direct reference theory for proper names, notions of essentialism, second-order modal logic, modal metaphysics, properties and classes, substitutional and objectual quantification, actualism, the Barcan formula, possibilia and possible-world semantics to epistemic and deontic modalities, non-language-centered theories of belief, accounts of rationality, consistency of a moral code, moral



dilemmas, and much more. The contributions demonstrate that Barcan Marcus’s original and clear ideas have had a formative influence on the direction in which certain themes central to today’s philosophical debate have developed. Furthermore, the volume includes an illuminating intellectual autobiography from Barcan Marcus herself as well as an informal interview containing her unfiltered, frank answers. The book brings together contributions by Ruth Barcan Marcus, Timothy Williamson, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Joëlle Proust, Pascal Engel, Edgar Morscher, Erik J. Olsson, and Michael Frauchiger.