Oxford, England: Oxford University Press (2005)
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This book is collection of the the author’s previously published papers on the philosophy of modality and tense and it also includes three unpublished papers. The author provides an exposition and defence of certain positions for which he is well-known: the intelligibility of modality de re; the primitiveness of the modal; and the primacy of the actual over the possible. He also argues for some less familiar positions: the existence of distinctive forms of natural and normative necessity, not reducible to any form of metaphysical necessity; the need to make a distinction between the worldly and unworldly, analogous to the distinction between the tensed and the tenseless; and the viability of a nonstandard form of realism about tense, which recognizes the tensed character of reality without conceding there is any privileged standpoint from which it is to be viewed.
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Keywords | modality tense ontology time identity realism |
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Reprint years | 2006 |
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Call number | BC199.M6.F56 2005 |
ISBN(s) | 0199278717 9780199278701 0199278709 9780199278718 |
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