Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality

By: Alvin Plantinga, Matthew Davidson

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Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential subject. 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? Are there possible but non-actual objects? Can objects that do not exist exemplify properties? Plantinga gives thorough and penetrating answers to all of these questions and many others.

This volume contains some of the best work in metaphysics from the past 30 years, and will remain a source of critical contention and keen interest among philosophers of metaphysics and philosophical logic for years to come.

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Acknowledgments	p. v
Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality	p. 2
Introduction	p. 3
Notes	p. 23
References	p. 24
De Re Et De Dicto	p. 25
Notes	p. 44
World and Essence	p. 46
Notes	p. 70
Transworld Identity or Worldbound Individuals?	p. 72
Notes	p. 89
Possible but Unactual Objects: on What There Isn't	p. 90
Notes	p. 102
Actualism and Possible Worlds	p. 103
Notes	p. 120
References	p. 121
The Boethian Compromise	p. 122
Notes	p. 137
De Essentia	p. 139
Notes	p. 157
On Existentialism	p. 158
Notes	p. 175
Replies to My Colleagues	p. 176
Notes	p. 190
Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism	p. 192
Notes	p. 224
References	p. 227
Why Propositions Cannot Be Concrete	p. 229
Notes	p. 234
Index	p. 235
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