Objects And Modalities

Author : Tero Tulenheimo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319531190
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Objects and Modalities written by Tero Tulenheimo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called ‘world line semantics’, which recognizes worlds and links between world-bound objects (world lines) as mutually independent aspects of modal semantics. Addressing a wide range of questions vital for contemporary debates in logic and philosophy of language and offering new tools for theoretical linguistics and knowledge representation, the book proposes a radically new paradigm in modal semantics. This framework is motivated philosophically, viewing a structure of world lines as a precondition of modal talk. The author provides a uniform analysis of quantification over individuals (physical objects) and objects of thought (intentional objects). The semantic account of what it means to speak of intentional objects throws new light on accounts of intentionality and singular thought in the philosophy of mind and offers novel insights into the semantics of intensional transitive verbs.

Author : Dustin Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199832811
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perception and Its Modalities written by Dustin Stokes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is about the many ways we perceive. The chapters explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information; what kinds of objects individuals perceive and whether multiple senses ever perceive a single event; how many senses people have, what makes one sense distinct from another, and whether and why distinguishing senses may be useful.

Author : Ruth Barcan Marcus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195096576
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modalities written by Ruth Barcan Marcus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers cover important themes such as extensionality, the necessity of identity, the conception of proper names as 'tags', essentialism, substitutional quantification, and possibilia and possible worlds. What emerges from them is a robust defence of quantified modal logic in the light of a host of objections, particularly from Quine.

Author : Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192636111
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensory Individuals written by Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensory Individuals: Unimodal and Multimodal Perspectives provides an interdisciplinary, well-balanced, and comprehensive look at different aspects of unisensory and multisensory objects, using both nuanced philosophical analysis and informed empirical work. The research presented in this book represents the field's progression from treating neural sensory processes as primarily modality-specific towards its current state of the art, according to which perception, and its supporting neural processes, are multi-modal, modality-independent, meta-modal, and task-dependent. Even within such approaches sensory stimuli, properties, brain activations, and corresponding perceptual phenomenology can still be characterized in a modality-specific way. The book examines the basic building blocks of human perception, and whether they are best understood as sensory modality dependent units of different forms or multimodal perceptual objects. The book combines a variety of innovative and integrative angles to explore the topic and acts as a catalyst for an increasingly diverse field of research, which is in an exciting phase of growth and advancement. New questions are arising as quickly as they are being answered, and the collection Sensory Individuals provides an original and up-to-date addition to the field.

Author : Walter Carnielli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402085907
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modalities and Multimodalities written by Walter Carnielli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades modal logic has undergone an explosive growth, to thepointthatacompletebibliographyofthisbranchoflogic,supposingthat someone were capable to compile it, would ?ll itself a ponderous volume. What is impressive in the growth of modal logic has not been so much the quick accumulation of results but the richness of its thematic dev- opments. In the 1960s, when Kripke semantics gave new credibility to the logic of modalities? which was already known and appreciated in the Ancient and Medieval times? no one could have foreseen that in a short time modal logic would become a lively source of ideas and methods for analytical philosophers,historians of philosophy,linguists, epistemologists and computer scientists. The aim which oriented the composition of this book was not to write a new manual of modal logic (there are a lot of excellent textbooks on the market, and the expert reader will realize how much we bene?ted from manyofthem)buttoo?ertoeveryreader,evenwithnospeci?cbackground in logic, a conceptually linear path in the labyrinth of the current panorama of modal logic. The notion which in our opinion looked suitable to work as a compass in this enterprise was the notion of multimodality, or, more speci?cally, the basic idea of grounding systems on languages admitting more than one primitive modal operator.

Author : Max Cresswell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077885
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap written by Max Cresswell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

Author : Uwe Meixner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110326892
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Ontic Modalities written by Uwe Meixner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive, non-model-theoretic theory of ontic necessity and possibility within a formal (and formalized) ontology consisting of states of affairs, properties, and individuals. Its central thesis is that all modalities are reducible to intrinsic (or "logical") possibility and necessity if reference is made to certain states of affairs, called "bases of necessity." The viability of this Bases-Theory of Modality is shown also in the case of conditionals, including counterfactual conditionals. Besides the ontological aspects of the philosophy of modality, also the epistemology of modality is treated in the book. It is shown that the Bases-Theory of Modality provides a satisfactory solution to the epistemological problem of modality. In addition to developing that theory, the book includes detailed discussions of positions in the philosophy of modality maintained by Alvin Plantinga, David Lewis, Charles Chihara, Graeme Forbes, David Armstrong, and others. Among the themes treated are: possibilism vs. actualism; the theory of essences; conceivability and possibility; the nature of possible worlds; the nature of logical, nomological, and metaphysical possibility and necessity.

Author : David Higgins
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802621857
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research written by David Higgins and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection stimulates discussion, shares practice and explores challenges around current and new approaches to inquiry - encompassing all aspects of entrepreneurship research, from its conception through to its execution and related issues such as education, training and learning.

Author : J. van Rijen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400926510
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Aristotle’s Logic of Modalities written by J. van Rijen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefania Centrone
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030875482
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oskar Becker, On the Logic of Modalities (1930): Translation, Commentary and Analysis written by Stefania Centrone and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first-ever English translation of Oskar Becker’s Zur Logik der Modalitäten. This essay, published in 1930, is a pioneering yet often neglected contribution in the context of prewar modal logic research in Europe. Becker’s text is complemented by an extended commentary that explains, analyzes and highlights Becker’s accomplishments and the philosophical background of his investigations. The commentary provides an in-depth analysis of all of Becker's important contributions, both from a philosophical and logical perspective, making it a very useful book for scholars in both philosophy and logic.