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The Nature of Necessity (1974)
- Plantinga's most influential work in metaphysics has focused primarily on the metaphysics of modality. In The Nature of Necessity (1974), as well as in various papers, a central theme is the exposition and defense of a realist and actualist construal of possible worlds and modal properties.
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Plantinga's most influential work in metaphysics has focused primarily on the metaphysics of modality. In The Nature of Necessity (1974), as well as in various papers, a central theme is the exposition and defense of a realist and actualist construal of possible worlds and modal properties.
Some of Plantinga's most influential works include God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and a trilogy of books on epistemology, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief (2000) that was simplified in Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015).
Oct 27, 2009 · PLANTINGA'S MODAL METAPHYSICS IN (RECENT) HISTORICAL CONTEXT. Metaphysics is the part of philosophy that is concerned with the extent and content of reality: with what there is and with the nature of what there is. Matters of modality are matters of possibilities, impossibilities and necessities: what can (could, might) be, what cannot (could ...
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Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena?
Mar 27, 2003 · Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of...
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Feb 16, 2013 · The essays build upon Plantinga’s groundbreaking work in metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of religion, work that renewed the place of religion, generally, and Christianity, specifically, in the intellectual life.
Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena?
