Author: Kurt Mosser
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813215323
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Kurt Mosser argues that reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as an argument for such a logic of experience makes more defensible many of Kant's most controversial claims, and makes more accessible Kant's notoriously difficult text.
Necessity and Possibility
Author: Kurt Mosser
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813215323
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Kurt Mosser argues that reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as an argument for such a logic of experience makes more defensible many of Kant's most controversial claims, and makes more accessible Kant's notoriously difficult text.
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813215323
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Kurt Mosser argues that reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as an argument for such a logic of experience makes more defensible many of Kant's most controversial claims, and makes more accessible Kant's notoriously difficult text.
Necessity and Possibility
Author: Michael Tooley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815333821
Category : Causation
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815333821
Category : Causation
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap
Author: Adriane Rini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107077885
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107077885
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.
Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard
Author: Irene Binini
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004470468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book offers a major reassessment of Abelard’s modal logic and theory of modalities, and provides a comprehensive study of the 12th-century context in which his views originated and developed, by analysing many logical sources that are still unedited and mostly unexplored.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004470468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book offers a major reassessment of Abelard’s modal logic and theory of modalities, and provides a comprehensive study of the 12th-century context in which his views originated and developed, by analysing many logical sources that are still unedited and mostly unexplored.
The Nature of Necessity
Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191037176
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the philosophy of religion - the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Argument.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191037176
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the philosophy of religion - the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Argument.
Leibniz, God and Necessity
Author: Michael V. Griffin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521117089
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521117089
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.
Analytical Metaphysics: a Collection of Essays
Author: Michael Tooley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780815333838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780815333838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Possibility and Necessity
Author: Jean Piaget
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816658501
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Possibility and Necessity was first published in 1987. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This two-volume work—Jean Piaget's last—was published in France in 1981 and 1983 and is available now for the first time in English translation. Reflecting the preoccupations and methodologies of his later years, Possibility and Necessity combines theoretical interpretation with detailed summaries of the experiments Piaget and his colleagues used to test their hypotheses. Volume 2 presents a series of experiments documenting the way children between the ages of four or five and eleven to thirteen come to develop a grasp of necessity and its role in understanding the world about them. The experiments show how children proceed from an initial level (at four or five years) of pseudo-necessities, where they see the world as necessarily what it appears to be without the existence of other possibilities, to an intermediate level (at six to ten years), where pseudo-necessities give way to increasingly rich arrays of possibilities, and a final stage (at eleven to thirteen years), where children are able to select among these multiple possibilities the one that fits all the data. This stage represents the optimal level of understanding reality, which is now seen by the child as infinitely variable yet coherent and lawful. Psychologically, this lawfulness corresponds to a sense of necessity, or certainty. Volume 2 thus completes the theory presented in Volume 1 (The Role of Possibility in Cognitive Development) by showing how cognitive development is mediated on the one hand by a dialectical process of ever-expanding possibilities and, on the other, by increasingly delimiting necessities. In demonstrating how this process operates in psychological development—and in pointing out analogies in the history of science — Piaget gave his genetic epistemology its final and most accomplished form. The acquisition of knowledge is thus shown to be the result of two complementary processes: the formation of possibilities and the grasping of necessary laws and constraints in the construction of a reasoned representation of the external world.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816658501
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Possibility and Necessity was first published in 1987. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This two-volume work—Jean Piaget's last—was published in France in 1981 and 1983 and is available now for the first time in English translation. Reflecting the preoccupations and methodologies of his later years, Possibility and Necessity combines theoretical interpretation with detailed summaries of the experiments Piaget and his colleagues used to test their hypotheses. Volume 2 presents a series of experiments documenting the way children between the ages of four or five and eleven to thirteen come to develop a grasp of necessity and its role in understanding the world about them. The experiments show how children proceed from an initial level (at four or five years) of pseudo-necessities, where they see the world as necessarily what it appears to be without the existence of other possibilities, to an intermediate level (at six to ten years), where pseudo-necessities give way to increasingly rich arrays of possibilities, and a final stage (at eleven to thirteen years), where children are able to select among these multiple possibilities the one that fits all the data. This stage represents the optimal level of understanding reality, which is now seen by the child as infinitely variable yet coherent and lawful. Psychologically, this lawfulness corresponds to a sense of necessity, or certainty. Volume 2 thus completes the theory presented in Volume 1 (The Role of Possibility in Cognitive Development) by showing how cognitive development is mediated on the one hand by a dialectical process of ever-expanding possibilities and, on the other, by increasingly delimiting necessities. In demonstrating how this process operates in psychological development—and in pointing out analogies in the history of science — Piaget gave his genetic epistemology its final and most accomplished form. The acquisition of knowledge is thus shown to be the result of two complementary processes: the formation of possibilities and the grasping of necessary laws and constraints in the construction of a reasoned representation of the external world.
Meaning and Necessity
Author: Rudolf Carnap
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226093476
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226093476
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal
Semantics from Different Points of View
Author: R. Bäuerle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642674585
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642674585
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description