PLANTINGA:NATURE OF NECESSITY CLLP PAPER - Couverture souple

PLANTINGA, Alvin

 
9780198244141: PLANTINGA:NATURE OF NECESSITY CLLP PAPER

Synopsis

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.

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Revue de presse

Interesting and original. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

Biographie de l'auteur

Alvin Plantinga is at University of Notre Dame.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780198244042: Nature of Necessity

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0198244045 ISBN 13 :  9780198244042
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1974
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