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May 15, 2003 · 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 William Kneale and W. V. Quine, and an elaboration on the notions of possible worlds and essences.
- Alvin Plantinga
Mar 6, 2019 · Essays in the metaphysics of modality. by. Plantinga, Alvin. Publication date. 2003. Topics. Modality (Logic), Metaphysics. Publisher. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.
Mar 27, 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...
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.
- Allan Bäck
- 2005
Making use of these concepts, I argue that each object not only has some properties essentially but also has an essence. (An essence is a property that an object x has essentially and which is such that it is not possible that there be an object distinct from x that has it.)
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 influential subject.
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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.
