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Persistence Through Time, and Across Pos

📁 Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds

✍ Jiri Benovsky 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 De Gruyter 🌐 English

<p>How do ordinary objects persist through time and across possible worlds? How do they manage to have their temporal and modal properties? These are the questions adressed in this book which is? "guided tour of theories of persistence". The book is divided in two parts. In the first, the two tradit

Possible Individuals, Trans-World Identi

📁 Possible Individuals, Trans-World Identity, and Quantified Modal Logic

📂 Fiction

Thinking through Kierkegaard: Existentia

📁 Thinking through Kierkegaard: Existential Identity in a Pluralistic World

✍ Peter J. Mehl 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 University of Illinois Press 🌐 English

<p><i>Thinking through Kierkegaard</i> is a critical evaluation of Søren Kierkegaard's vision of the normatively human, of who we are and might aspire to become, and of what Mehl calls our existential identity. Through a pragmatist examination of three of Kierkegaard's key pseudonymous "voices" (Jud

Healing is Possible Through Resting

📁 Healing is Possible Through Resting

📂 Fiction 📅 2011

Possible worlds

📁 Possible worlds

✍ Girle R.A. 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 McGill-Queen's Univ. 🌐 English

This short history of Ireland since the 1790s is concise, comprehensive and challenging. Written with the general reader in mind, it assumes no previous knowledge of the subject. Modern history starts with the French Revolution. Nationalism was one of the new forces it unleashed: nowhere was its imp

Possible Worlds

📁 Possible Worlds

✍ Rod Girle 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 McGill-Queen's University Press 🌐 English

Ever since Saul Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, 'possible worlds' has been a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics. To propose the idea of a possible world that differs in some way from our actual world - for example a world where the grass is red or w