Can without possible worlds. Semantics for anti-Humeans
Vetter B (2013)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2013
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Pages Range: 1-27
Journal Issue: 13
Abstract
Metaphysicians of modality are increasingly critical of possible-worlds talk, and increasingly happy to accept irreducibly modal properties – and in particular, irreducible dispositions – in nature. The aim of this paper is to provide the beginnings of a modal semantics which uses, instead of possible-worlds talk, the resources of such an 'anti-Humean' metaphysics. One central challenge to an anti-Humean view is the context-sensitivity of modal language. I show how that challenge can be met and a systematic modal semantics provided, given an independently plausible metaphysics of dispositional properties or potentialities
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APA:
Vetter, B. (2013). Can without possible worlds. Semantics for anti-Humeans. Philosophers' Imprint, 13, 1-27.
MLA:
Vetter, Barbara. "Can without possible worlds. Semantics for anti-Humeans." Philosophers' Imprint 13 (2013): 1-27.
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