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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816375403321

Titolo

Identity and modality / / [edited by] Fraser MacBride

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-04311-6

1-281-15417-2

9786611154172

0-19-153658-X

1-4356-0719-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Mind Association occasional series

Altri autori (Persone)

MacBrideFraser

Disciplina

111/.82

Soggetti

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Modality (Theory of knowledge)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The limits of contingency / Gideon Rosen -- Modal infallibilism and basic truth / Scott Sturgeon -- The modal fictionalist predicament / John Divers and Jason Hagen -- On realism about chance / Philip Percival -- Structure and identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The identity problem for realist structuralism II : a reply to Shapiro / Jukka Keranen -- The governance of identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The Julius Caesar objection : more problematic than ever / Fraser MacBride -- Sortals and the binding problem / John Campbell -- Vagueness and personal identity / Keith Hossack -- Is there a bodily criterion of personal identity? /  Eric T. Olson.

Sommario/riassunto

Addressing fundamental and interrelated philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that were pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the 20th century, this work is intended for graduate students in the subject and professional philosophers.