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Modality, Morality and Belief
Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus

Editors:
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Diana Raffman, Ohio State University
Nicholas Asher, University of Texas, Austin

Terence Parsons, Robert Stalnaker, Maxwell J. Cresswell, David Kaplan, Kit Fine, Charles Parsons, David Wiggins, Philippa Foot, Patricia S. Greenspan, Joel Feinberg, Nuel Belnap, Paul Bartha, Robert J. Fogelin, Issac Levi, Ernest Sosa, Scott Soames

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Date Published: January 2009
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521100571

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Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop new positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism, and the explanation of actions by beliefs. Together, this collection honors one of the most rigorous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.
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"In an intersting and wide-ranging discussion, Parsons surveys various explanations and justifications provided by mathematicians and philosophers, concluding that ontological features do not play an essential role in the development of ZF, and need not be taken to be part of the literal truth about sets." Philip Bricker, Journal of Symbolic Logic

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- Date Published: January 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521100571
- length: 292 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Modality:
1. Ruth Barcan Marcus and the Barcan Formula Terence Parsons
2. The interaction of modality with quantification and identity Robert Stalnaker
3. S1 is not so simple Maxwell J. Cresswell
4. A problem in possible-world semantics David Kaplan
5. Senses of essence Kit Fine
6. Structuralism and the concept of set Charles Parsons
7. The Kant-Frege-Russell view of existence David Wiggins
Part II. Morality:
8. Moral dilemmas revisited Philippa Foot
9. Perspectival Guilt Patricia S. Greenspan
10. Instigating the unpredisposed Joel Feinberg
11. Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities Nuel Belnap and Paul Bartha
Part III. Belief:
12. Pierre, Saul, Ruth and Bob and a puzzle about belief Robert J. Fogelin
13. Closure and consistency Issac Levi
14. De Re Belief, action explanations and the essential indexical Ernest Sosa
15. T-sentences Scott Soames.
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Editors
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Diana Raffman, Ohio State University
Nicholas Asher, University of Texas, Austin
Contributors
Terence Parsons, Robert Stalnaker, Maxwell J. Cresswell, David Kaplan, Kit Fine, Charles Parsons, David Wiggins, Philippa Foot, Patricia S. Greenspan, Joel Feinberg, Nuel Belnap, Paul Bartha, Robert J. Fogelin, Issac Levi, Ernest Sosa, Scott Soames