| The Nature of Necessity Revised Edition Contributor(s): Plantinga, Alvin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198244142 ISBN-13: 9780198244141 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1979 Annotation: This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. Plantinga develops his argument by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over such key problems as the nature of essence, transworld identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. He also applies his logical theories to the elucidation of two problems in the philosophy of religion: the problem of evil and the ontological argument. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Logic - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 160 |
| LCCN: 95112582 |
| Lexile Measure: 1200 |
| Series: Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.48" W x 8.52" (0.70 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. Plantinga develops his argument by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over such key problems as the nature of essence, transworld identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. He also applies his logical theories to the elucidation of two problems in the philosophy of religion: the problem of evil and the ontological argument. |