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On the Plurality of Worlds
February 1, 2001, Blackwell Publishing Limited
in English
0631224262 9780631224266
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First Sentence
"The world we live in is a very inclusive thing."
Table of Contents
Preface
Page vii
1.
A Philosopher's Paradise
1.1.
The Thesis of Plurality of Worlds
Page 1
1.2.
Modal Realism at Work: Modality
Page 5
1.3.
Modal Realism at Work: Closeness
Page 20
1.4.
Modal Realism at Work: Content
Page 27
1.5.
Modal Realism at Work: Properties
Page 50
1.6.
Isolation
Page 69
1.7.
Concreteness
Page 81
1.8.
Plenitude
Page 86
1.9.
Actuality
Page 92
2.
Paradox in Paradise?
2.1.
Everything is Actual?
Page 97
2.2.
All Worlds in One?
Page 101
2.3.
More Worlds Than There Are?
Page 104
2.4.
How Can We Know?
Page 108
2.5.
A Road to Scepticism?
Page 115
2.6.
A Road to Indifference?
Page 123
2.7.
Arbitrariness Lost?
Page 128
2.8.
The Incredulous Stare
Page 133
3.
Paradise on the Cheap?
3.1.
The Ersatzist Programme
Page 136
3.2.
Linguistic Ersatzism
Page 142
3.3.
Pictorial Ersatzism
Page 165
3.4.
Magical Ersatzism
Page 174
4.
Counterparts or Double Lives?
4.1.
Good Questions and Bad
Page 192
4.2.
Against Overlap
Page 198
4.3.
Against Trans-World Individuals
Page 216
4.4.
Against Haecceitism
Page 226
4.5.
Against Constancy
Page 248
Works Cited
Page 264
Index
Page 271
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