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27 de mar. de 2003 · Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this...
I begin the essay by introducing the ideas of states of affairs, possible worlds, and truth in a possible world. Making use of these concepts, I argue that each object not only has some properties essentially but also has an essence.
This book is a collection of my essays, dating from 1969, concerning the metaphysics of modality. The first two chapters are a defense of the idea of modality de re against criticisms from...
Allan Bäck: Review of Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality where a proper name has a Fregean sense, consisting of (most of) a cluster of universal attributes.
Essays In The Metaphysics Of Modality. Alvin Plantinga, M. Davidson. Published 2003. Philosophy. This volume collects the most important articles on the metaphysics of modality by noted philosopher Alvin Plantinga. The book chronicles Plantinga's thought from the late 1960's to the present.
Existentialism is the claim that quidditative properties and singular propositions are ontologically dependent upon the individuals they involve. In this essay, I consider two arguments for existentialism and find them both unconvincing.
“Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism” originally appeared in Philosophical Perspectives 1, Metaphysics (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Company), pp. 189–231. Reprinted with kind permission of James Tomberlin.
