Hyperintensional metaphysics
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In the last few decades of the twentieth century there was a revolution in metaphysics: the intensional revolution. Many metaphysicians rejected the doctrine, associated with Quine and Davidson, that extensional analyses and theoretical resources were the only acceptable ones. Metaphysicians embraced tools like modal and counterfactual analyses, claims of modal and counterfactual dependence, and entities such as possible worlds and intensionally individuated properties and relations. The...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Nolan, Daniel | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-07T22:19:50Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-8116 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/19533 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the last few decades of the twentieth century there was a revolution in metaphysics: the intensional revolution. Many metaphysicians rejected the doctrine, associated with Quine and Davidson, that extensional analyses and theoretical resources were the only acceptable ones. Metaphysicians embraced tools like modal and counterfactual analyses, claims of modal and counterfactual dependence, and entities such as possible worlds and intensionally individuated properties and relations. The twenty-first century is seeing a hypterintensional revolution. Theoretical tools in common use carve more finely than by necessary equivalence: two pieces of language can apply to the same entities across all possible worlds but not be equivalent; thoughts can be necessarily equivalent in truth value but not synonymous. This paper argues that hyperintensional resources are valuable in metaphysics outside theories of representation, and discusses some promising areas of hyperintensional metaphysics. | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers | |
dc.source | Philosophical Studies | |
dc.title | Hyperintensional metaphysics | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | online | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 220309 - Metaphysics | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | U5395746xPUB8 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Nolan, Daniel, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1007%2Fs11098-013-0251-2 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 970122 - Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-06-14T09:14:12Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-84920154919 | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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