Divers, J orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-6587 and Fletcher, J (2020) (Once again) Lewis on the analysis of modality. Synthese, 197. pp. 4645-4668. ISSN 0039-7857
Abstract
We propose a novel interpretation of Lewis on the analysis of modality that is constructed from primary sources, comprehensive and unprecedented (in toto). Our guiding precepts are to distinguish semantics from metaphysics, while respecting the inter-relations between them, and to discern whatever may be special, semantically or metaphysically, about the modal case. Following detailed presentation (Sect. 2), we amplify and advocate our interpretation by providing a conforming genealogy of Lewis’s theory of modality (Sect. 3) and applying it to construct a detailed and newly illuminating version of the Lewisian theory of modality de re (Sect. 4).
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018, The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Lewis; Metaphysics; semantics; analysis; Semantic Analysis; Modality; Modality De Re; philosophical methodology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2018 16:17 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11229-018-1698-7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138785 |
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