Name: The Bounds of Possibility: Puzzles of Modal Variation (en Inglés)
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Author: Dorr, Cian ; Hawthorne, John ; Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
ISBN: 9780192846655

portada The Bounds of Possibility: Puzzles of Modal Variation (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Cian Dorr

John Hawthorne

Juhani Yli-Vakkuri

Editorial

Oxford University Press, USA

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

448

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.0 x 3.0 cm

Peso

0.79 kg.

ISBN13

9780192846655

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Lógica

The Bounds of Possibility: Puzzles of Modal Variation (en Inglés)

Cian Dorr (Autor) · John Hawthorne (Autor) · Juhani Yli-Vakkuri (Autor) · Oxford University Press, USA · Tapa Dura

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In general, a given object could have been different in certain respects. For example, the Great Pyramid could have been somewhat shorter or taller; the Mona Lisa could have had a somewhat different pattern of colours; an ordinary table could have been made of a somewhat different quantity ofwood. But there seem to be limits. It would be odd to suppose that the Great Pyramid could have been thimble-sized; that the Mona Lisa could have had the pattern of colours that actually characterizes The Scream; or that the table could have been made of the very quantity of wood that in fact madesome other table. However, there are puzzling arguments that purport to show that so long as an object is capable of being somewhat different in some respect, it is capable of being radically different in that respect. These arguments rely on two tempting thoughts: first, that an object's capacityfor moderate variation is a non-contingent matter, and second, that what is possibly possible is simply possible. The Bounds of Possibility systematically investigates competing strategies for resolving these puzzles, and defends one of them. Along the way it engages with foundational questionsabout the metaphysics of modality.