Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The Story of Necessity

ISBN 10: 1107434904 / ISBN 13: 9781107434905

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Beschreibung

pp. 366.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26378702906

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The Story of Necessity
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1107434904
• ISBN-13: 9781107434905
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Max Cresswell taught philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington from 1963 to 1999, and has taught there again part-time since 2009. He has published over 150 articles and eleven books, including three widely used texts on modal logic with G. E. Hughes, and most recently, with Adriane Rini, The World-Time Parallel (Cambridge, 2012).

Edwin Mares is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington. His publications include Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Interpretation (Cambridge, 2004), A Priori (2011), and, with Stuart Brock, Realism and Anti-Realism (2007).

Adriane Rini is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Massey University, New Zealand. She is the author of Aristotle's Modal Proofs (2011) and, with Max Cresswell, The World-Time Parallel (Cambridge, 2012).