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Possible worlds and the necessary a posteriori

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dc.contributor.authorJackson, Frank
dc.contributor.editorBob Hale
dc.contributor.editorAviv Hoffmann
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:16:47Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:42:43Z
dc.description.abstractW. V. Quine's famous objection to essentialism has provoked two responses. The unfriendly response is that it conflates the de re and the de dicto. The friendly response does not dispute the point about conflation but argues that, behind Quine's argument, lies an important epistemological problem for essentialism. This chapter argues that the problem can be solved by looking at the issue through the lens of possible worlds approaches to modal questions. This serves as a preamble to addressing the corresponding issue for the necessary a posteriori. There is an important epistemological problem for the necessary a posteriori but the possible worlds approach to modal questions offers a solution to it. The solution turns out to be version of two-dimensionalism about the necessary a posteriori.
dc.identifier.isbn9780199565818
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/18193
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.ispartofModality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.source.urihttp://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199565818.do
dc.titlePossible worlds and the necessary a posteriori
dc.typeBook chapter
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage266
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationOxford
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage257
local.contributor.affiliationJackson, Frank, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidJackson, Frank, u8606954
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor220308 - Logic
local.identifier.absfor220313 - Philosophy of Language
local.identifier.absseo970122 - Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies
local.identifier.ariespublicationU8606954xPUB3
local.identifier.doi.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565818.003.0013
local.type.statusPublished Version

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