Modality, Morality and Belief
Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus
Published on 27. January 1995
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-0-521-44082-0 (ISBN)
Description
Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop fresh positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism and the explanation of actions by beliefs. This collection honours one of the most rigourous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.
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"In an intersting and wide-ranging discussion, Parsons surveys various explanations and justifications provided by mathematicians and philosophers, concluding that ontological features do not play an essential role in the development of ZF, and need not be taken to be part of the literal truth about sets." Philip Bricker, Journal of Symbolic LogicMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
625 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-44082-0 (9780521440820)
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Modality, Morality and Belief
Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus
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Content
Part I. Modality: 1. Ruth Barcan Marcus and the Barcan Formula Terence Parsons; 2. The interaction of modality with quantification and identity Robert Stalnaker; 3. S1 is not so simple Maxwell J. Cresswell; 4. A problem in possible-world semantics David Kaplan; 5. Senses of essence Kit Fine; 6. Structuralism and the concept of set Charles Parsons; 7. The Kant-Frege-Russell view of existence David Wiggins; Part II. Morality: 8. Moral dilemmas revisited Philippa Foot; 9. Perspectival Guilt Patricia S. Greenspan; 10. Instigating the unpredisposed Joel Feinberg; 11. Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities Nuel Belnap and Paul Bartha; Part III. Belief: 12. Pierre, Saul, Ruth and Bob and a puzzle about belief Robert J. Fogelin; 13. Closure and consistency Issac Levi; 14. De Re Belief, action explanations and the essential indexical Ernest Sosa; 15. T-sentences Scott Soames.