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Autore |
Steinberg Alexander <1979-> |
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A chance for possibility : an investigation into the grounds of modality / / Alexander Steinberg |
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Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2013] |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Philosophische analyse / philosophical analysis ; ; 51 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Modality (Logic) |
Possibility |
Realism |
Supervenience (Philosophy) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Supervenience -- Chapter 3. Concrete Possible Worlds -- Chapter 4. Abstract Possible Worlds -- Chapter 5. Possibility and Probability -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Non-Nominal Quantification -- Name Index -- Bibliography |
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A Chance for Possibility defends the view that the objective modal realm is tripartite: truths about possible worlds supervene on modal truths, which in turn supervene on truths about objective chances. An understanding of supervenience in terms of grounding is developed which - unlike the standard modal characterization - allows the question of what modal truths supervene on to have a non-trivial answer. Relying on this understanding, a negative result is established: modal truths do not supervene on truths about possible worlds, whether possible worlds are conceived of as Lewisian concreta or as abstract objects of some kind. Instead, a conception of pleonastic possible worlds is developed that reverses the direction of supervenience. On the basis of linguistic considerations concerning our use of natural language 'might' and 'might have' sentences, Steinberg finally argues that truths about objective chances are able to provide a |
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supervenience base for modal truths. A Chance for Possibility is an investigation in analytic metaphysics, drawing on related work in the philosophy of logic and language as well as linguistics. It provides a detailed case study for the fruitful use of a notion of grounding in the clarification and evaluation of longstanding philosophical issues. |
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UNINA9910817781103321 |
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Cultures in flux : lower-class values, practices, and resistance in late Imperial Russia / / edited by Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1994 |
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1-282-75195-6 |
9786612751950 |
1-4008-2133-9 |
1-4008-1165-1 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FrankStephen <1955-> |
SteinbergMark D. <1953-> |
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Working class - Russia |
Peasants - Russia |
Popular culture - Russia - History - 19th century |
Folklore - Russia |
Russia Social life and customs 1533-1917 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references p. ([205]-210) and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION / Steinberg, Mark D. / Frank, Stephen P. -- 1. Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead / Worobec, Christine D. -- 2. Women, Men, and the Languages of Peasant Resistance, 1870-1907 / Engel, Barbara Alpern -- 3. Peasant Popular Culture and the Origins of Soviet Authoritarianism / Mironov, Boris N. -- 4. Confronting the Domestic Other: Rural Popular Culture and Its Enemies in Fin-de-Siècle Russia / |
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Frank, Stephen P. -- 5. Death of the Folk Song? / Rothstein, Robert A. -- 6. Shows for the People: Public Amusement Parks in Nineteenth-Century St. Petersburg / Konechnyi, Al'bin M. -- 7. For Tsar and Fatherland? Russian Popular Culture and the First World War / Jahn, Hubertus F. -- 8. The Penny Press and Its Readers / Brower, Daniel R. -- 9. Worker-Authors and the Cult of the Person / Steinberg, Mark D. -- 10. Culture Besieged: Hooliganism and Futurism / Neuberger, Joan -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture. What emerges is a new picture of lower-class life, in which traditions and innovations intermingled and social boundaries and identities were battered and reconstructed. The authors vividly convey the vitality as well as the contradictions of social life in old regime Russia, while also confronting problems of interpretation, methodology, and cultural theory. They tell of peasant death rites and religious beliefs, family relationships and brutalities, defiant peasant women, folk songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism, the penny press, workers' notions of the self, street hooliganism, and attempts by educated Russians to transform popular festivities. Together, the authors portray popular culture not as a static, separate world, but as the dynamic means through which lower-class Russians engaged the world around them. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Daniel R. Brower, Barbara Alpern Engel, Hubertus F. Jahn, Al'bin M. Konechnyi, Boris N. Mironov, Joan Neuberger, Robert A. Rothstein, and Christine D. Worobec. |
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