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Modal Logic as Metaphysics by Timothy Williamson is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Modal Logic as Metaphysics about?
Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the basis of an integrated approach to the issues, applying the technical resources of modal logic to provi
Who reads Modal Logic as Metaphysics?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Timothy Williamson
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198709435
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Mathematics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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