Add to ORKGThe paper briefly examines the major types of attitudes towards possible worlds, what is called therein pessimism, realism, and fictionalism. The paper goes on to argue that fictionalism is the best explanation for possible worlds talk, and sketches one way it might be cashed out
Philosophers often explain what could be the case in terms of what is, in fact, the case at one poss...
The role of possible worlds in philosophy is hard to overestimate. Nevertheless, their nature and ex...
In this paper I shall argue against the use of possible world semantics. I shall argue that all talk...
The main aim of the article is a comparison of two types of modal fictionalism (which is, to put it ...
In our everyday discourse, most of us use modal statements to express possibility, necessity, or con...
Modal Anti-Realism: Intrumentalism vs. FictionalismThe aim of the paper is to compare two kinds of a...
The paper defends a naturalistic version of modal actualism according to which what is metaphysicall...
Accounts of modality in terms of fictional possible worlds face an objection based on the idea that ...
Abstract. The Brock-Rosen problem has been one of the most thoroughly discussed objections to the mo...
Ever since Saul Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, 'possible wor...
Among the most remarkable developments in metaphysics since the 1950’s is the explosion of philosoph...
Modality concerns what might or must be the case. Modal expressions are typically intensional. An ex...
Recent attempts to understand modality have centered upon possible worlds. One view, offered by Davi...
Richard Hanley, Ph.D.While there is broad consensus on the roles propositions can play (they are the...
Our paper consists of three parts. In the first part we explain the concept of mental fictionalism. ...
Philosophers often explain what could be the case in terms of what is, in fact, the case at one poss...
The role of possible worlds in philosophy is hard to overestimate. Nevertheless, their nature and ex...
In this paper I shall argue against the use of possible world semantics. I shall argue that all talk...
The main aim of the article is a comparison of two types of modal fictionalism (which is, to put it ...
In our everyday discourse, most of us use modal statements to express possibility, necessity, or con...
Modal Anti-Realism: Intrumentalism vs. FictionalismThe aim of the paper is to compare two kinds of a...
The paper defends a naturalistic version of modal actualism according to which what is metaphysicall...
Accounts of modality in terms of fictional possible worlds face an objection based on the idea that ...
Abstract. The Brock-Rosen problem has been one of the most thoroughly discussed objections to the mo...
Ever since Saul Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, 'possible wor...
Among the most remarkable developments in metaphysics since the 1950’s is the explosion of philosoph...
Modality concerns what might or must be the case. Modal expressions are typically intensional. An ex...
Recent attempts to understand modality have centered upon possible worlds. One view, offered by Davi...
Richard Hanley, Ph.D.While there is broad consensus on the roles propositions can play (they are the...
Our paper consists of three parts. In the first part we explain the concept of mental fictionalism. ...
Philosophers often explain what could be the case in terms of what is, in fact, the case at one poss...
The role of possible worlds in philosophy is hard to overestimate. Nevertheless, their nature and ex...
In this paper I shall argue against the use of possible world semantics. I shall argue that all talk...