Actuality, possibility and worlds / Alexander Robert Pruss.
By: Pruss, Alexander R.
Material type: BookSeries: Continuum studies in philosophy of religion: Publisher: London : Continuum, 2011Description: 303 Pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781441145161 (hb); 1441145168 (hb); 9781441142047 (pb); 1441142045 (pb).Subject(s): Modality (Logic) | Possibility | Modality (Logic) | PossibilityDDC classification: 111 Summary: This title is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible.--Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due |
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Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary 2nd floor | 111 PRU 2011 (Browse shelf) | Available | Donated by Michael Weinman |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
This title is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible.--
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