Cart
Free Shipping in Australia
Proud to be B-Corp

Actuality, Possibility and Worlds Alexander R. Pruss

Actuality, Possibility and Worlds By Alexander R. Pruss

Actuality, Possibility and Worlds by Alexander R. Pruss


$113.49
Condition - New
Only 2 left

Summary

An exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. It surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible.

Actuality, Possibility and Worlds Summary

Actuality, Possibility and Worlds by Alexander R. Pruss

This is an original exploration of the philosophical arguments for and against the possibility of other worlds. Actuality, Possibility and Worlds 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. The notion of possible worlds appears to be useful for many purposes, such as the analysis of counterfactuals or elucidating the nature of propositions and properties. This usefulness of possible worlds makes for a second general question: Are there any possible worlds and, if so, what are they? Are they concrete universes as David Lewis thinks, Platonic abstracta as per Robert M. Adams and Alvin Plantinga, or maybe linguistic or mathematical constructs such as Heller thinks? Or is perhaps Leibniz right in thinking that possibilia are not on par with actualities and that abstracta can only exist in a mind, so that possible worlds are ideas in the mind of God? Continuum Studies in Philosophy of Religion presents scholarly monographs offering cutting-edge research and debate to students and scholars in philosophy of religion. The series engages with the central questions and issues within the field, including the problem of evil, the cosmological, teleological, moral, and ontological arguments for the existence of God, divine foreknowledge, and the coherence of theism. It also incorporates volumes on the following metaphysical issues as and when they directly impact on the philosophy of religion: the existence and nature of the soul, the existence and nature of free will, natural law, the meaning of life, and science and religion.

About Alexander R. Pruss

Alexander R. Pruss is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, TX, USA. He has PhDs in both Philosophy as well as Mathematics and is the author of The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (CUP, 2006) and co-editor, with Richard M. Gale, of The Existence of God (Ashgate, 2003).

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Introduction; Part II. Applications and pseudo-applications; Part III. The Lewisian ontology of extreme modal realism; Part IV. Platonic ersatz ontologies; Part V. Sketches towards a Spinozistic-Tractarian account of modality. Part VI. Aristotelian-Leibnizian ontology; Part VII. Final conclusions; Bibliography.

Additional information

NLS9781441142047
9781441142047
1441142045
Actuality, Possibility and Worlds by Alexander R. Pruss
New
Paperback
Continuum Publishing Corporation
20110721
320
null null null null null null null null null null
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - Actuality, Possibility and Worlds