Modality, morality, and belief : essays in honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus
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. This "state-of-the-art" collection honors one of the most rigorous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers
Print Book, English, 1995
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1995
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521440820, 0521440823
29259344
Ruth Barcan Marcus and the Barcan formula / Terence Parsons
The interaction of modality with quantification and identity / Robert Stalnaker
S1 is not so simple / Maxwell J. Cresswell
A problem in possible-world semantics / David Kaplan
Senses of essence / Kit Fine
Structuralism and the concept of set / Charles Parsons
The Kant-Frege-Russell view of existence : toward the rehabilitation of the second-level view / David Wiggins
Moral dilemmas revisited / Philippa Foot
Perspectival guilt / Patricia S. Greenspan
Instigating the unpredisposed : bad luck in law and life / Joel Feinberg
Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities / Nuel Belnap and Paul Bartha
Pierre, Saul, Ruth, and Bob and a puzzle about belief / Robert J. Fogelin
Closure and consistency / Isaac Levi
De re belief, action explanations, and the essential indexical / Ernest Sosa
T-sentences / Scott Soames