Possibilities that Matter: An Introduction to Material Modal Logic (Metaphysica in Nuce) - Softcover

Duncan, Steven M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542880564 ISBN 13: 9781542880565

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Subtitled "An Introduction to Material Modal Logic," this monograph explores modal logic from a realist perspective on possibility that, following Aristotle and Kant, grounds possibility in actuality and thus provides a material, rather than merely formal, interpretation of basic modal notions. It then applies this material modal logic to the understanding of contingent being and the existence of a necessary being serving as "the ground of all possibility."

About this title

About the Author:

Steven M. Duncan (1954-) earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1987. He taught as a TA and Adjunct philosophy instructor at various colleges and universities from 1976-2015, when he retired from Bellevue College. He is author of five books, including The Proof of the External World (2007) and How Free Will Works (2011), both published by Wipf and Stock. In addition, he has uploaded fifty papers to the Philpapers website. He and his wife Corazon reside in Tukwila, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1542880564
• ISBN 13: 9781542880565
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172