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From Possible to Impossible Worlds

open access: yesImpossible Worlds, 2019
Abstract Possible worlds are ways things might have been. They find applications in analysing possibility and necessity; propositions; knowledge and belief; information; and indicative and counterfactual conditionals. But possible worlds semantics faces the issue of hyperintensionality, generated by concepts that require distinctions ...
Francesco Berto, Mark Jago
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Fictionalism about Impossible Worlds [PDF]

open access: bronzeReview of Analytic Philosophy, 2021
Yusuke Satake
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Counterpossibles and the nature of impossible worlds

open access: yesSATS, 2016
AbstractOne well-known objection to the traditional Lewis-Stalnaker semantics of counterfactuals is that it delivers counterintuitive semantic verdicts for many counterpossibles (counterfactuals with necessarily false antecedents).
Mattias Skipper Rasmussen
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Unnatural Temporalities and Projected Places in Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2

open access: yesELOPE, 2021
Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2 (1967) belongs to his first period of play writing. In this phase, his works exhibit experimental, remote, impossible narrative/fictional worlds that are overwhelmingly abstract, exhibiting “abrupt shifts of focus and tone ...
Omid Amani   +2 more
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The creative remembering of the self: Spatial and temporal characteristics of Will Self’s “Walking to Hollywood: Memories of before the fall” and Ben Lerner’s “10:04”

open access: yesИсследования языка и современное гуманитарное знание, 2021
In the present paper we make an attempt to define the phenomenon of autofiction as opposed to the well-established notion of autobiography, that over the last number of years has sparked off considerable debate about factual and fictional in life-writing,
Maria A. Yalovenko
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Modal realism: Yet another hybrid version [PDF]

open access: yesBelgrade Philosophical Annual, 2015
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of modality by means of the existence of concrete impossible worlds. In particular, I pursue a strategy according to which logical impossibility is analyzed as logical inaccessibility.
Vacek Martin
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Degrowth but, Where? Degrowth For Whom? [PDF]

open access: yesARQ, 2022
It is almost impossible to disagree with a proposal seeking to slow things down to minimize harm to the planet. However, the question is where. The manifesto in The Case for Degrowth acknowledges the challenge of asking distinct populations to lower ...
Deepak Lamba-Nieves
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A Theory of Impossible Worlds (Metalepsis)

open access: yesCastilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2015
The purpose of this work is threefold: First, to develop a textual model of literary genres based on generic categories, natural and elemental, capable of being applied to all literary texts, existing or imaginable; second, to attempt to explain the ...
Alfonso Martín-Jiménez
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Degrowth but, Where? The Case for Degrowth [PDF]

open access: yesARQ, 2022
It is almost impossible to disagree with a proposal seeking to slow things down to minimize harm to the planet. However, the question is where. The manifesto in The Case for Degrowth acknowledges the challenge of asking distinct populations to lower ...
Giorgos Kallis   +3 more
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