Add to ORKGIn this paper, I defend an indexical analysis of the abstract-concrete distinction within the framework of modal realism. This analysis holds the abstract-concrete distinction to be conceptually inseparable from the distinction between the actual and the merely possible, which is assumed to be indexical in nature. The resulting view contributes to the case for modal realism by demonstrating how its distinctive resources provide a reductive analysis of the abstract-concrete distinction. This indexical analysis also provides a solution to a sceptical problem regarding our concreteness, which parallels the sceptical problem that motivates indexicalism about actuality
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The chapter argues that the search for a single construal of the realism/anti-realism distinction is...
There is a salient contrast in how theoretical representations are regarded. Some are regarded as re...
The paper deals with such a modification of genuine modal realism as to accommodate impossible world...
In this paper, I defend an indexical analysis of the abstract-concrete distinction within the framew...
In this paper I argue that Modal Realism, the thesis that there exist non-actual possible individual...
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I examine a puzzle that emerges from what J. P. Moreland has called the tra...
Many philosophers, following David Lewis, believe that we should look to counterpart theory, not qua...
In this paper, I claim that two ways of defining validity for modal languages (“real-world” and “gen...
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of modality by means of the existence of concrete im...
Modal realists face a puzzle. For modal realism to be justified, modal realists need to be able to g...
Genuine modal realism (GMR) holds that whatever is possibile is the case at some possible world and ...
A philosopher who thinks substantive necessities obtain in re, this paper argues, need not believe i...
We argue that genuine modal realism can be extended, rather than modified, so as to allow for the p...
It is a commonsense thesis that unactualized possibilities are not parts of actuality. To ...
The chapter argues that the search for a single construal of the realism/anti-realism distinction is...
There is a salient contrast in how theoretical representations are regarded. Some are regarded as re...
The paper deals with such a modification of genuine modal realism as to accommodate impossible world...