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Philosophy Compass, 2013 Impossible worlds are representations of impossible things and impossible happenings. They earn their keep in a semantic or metaphysical theory if they do the right theoretical work for us.
Daniel Patrick Nolan
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Impossibility and Impossible Worlds [PDF]
, 2020 Possible worlds have found many applications in contemporary philosophy: from theories of possibility and necessity, to accounts of conditionals, to theories of mental and linguistic content, to understanding supervenience relationships, to theories of ...
Nolan, Daniel
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Impossible worlds and partial belief [PDF]
Synthese, 2019 One response to the problem of logical omniscience in standard possible worlds models of belief is to extend the space of worlds so as to include impossible worlds. It is natural to think that essentially the same strategy can be applied to probabilistic
Elliott, E
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Ceteris paribus logic in counterfactual reasoning [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2016 The semantics for counterfactuals due to David Lewis has been challenged on the basis of unlikely, or impossible, events. Such events may skew a given similarity order in favour of those possible worlds which exhibit them.
Patrick Girard, Marcus Anthony Triplett
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Impossible worlds and logical omniscience: an impossibility result
SynthÈse, 2011 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Jens Christian Bjerring
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, 2019 Abstract The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’, a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves—from meaning and information to knowledge, belief, causation, essence, supervenience, conditionality, as well as ...
Francesco Berto, Mark Jago
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Logically Impossible Worlds [PDF]
The Australasian Journal of Logic, 2018 What does it mean for the laws of logic to fail? My task in this paper is to answer this question. I use the resources that Routley/Sylvan developed with his collaborators for the semantics of relevant logics to explain a world where the laws of logic ...
Tanaka, Koji
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Impossible Worlds Are Here to Stay
CríticaI address objections to impossible worlds (IWs) by Timothy Williamson and Kit Fine. Two species of IWs Mark Jago and I had in our Impossible Worlds book were FDE worlds (worlds used in the semantics of the nonclassical logic of First Degree Entailment ...
Francesco Berto
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Causal Counterfactuals and Impossible Worlds [PDF]
, 2017 A standing challenge in the theory of counterfactuals is to solve the “deviation problem”. Consider ordinary counterfactuals involving an antecedent concerning a difference from the actual course of events at a particular time, and a consequent ...
Nolan, Daniel
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Sustainability and impossible worlds
Environment and Planning E, Nature and SpaceThis paper mobilises the idea of impossible worlds to conceptualise and explore inconsistent and illogical visions and ways of living sustainably. Specifically, the paper focuses on an understanding of sustainability based on classic Kantian universalistic ethics (suppose everyone did the same) and relative feelings of responsibility and guilt for the
Filippo Menga
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