Preface
1: Contingentism and Necessitism
2: The Barcan Formula and its Converse: Early Developments
3: Possible Worlds Model Theory
4: Predication and Modality
5: From First-Order to Higher-Order Modal Logic
6: Intensional Comprehension Principles and Metaphysics
7: Mappings between Contingentist and Necessitist Discourse
8: Consequences of necessitism
Methodological Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the
University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College Oxford. He was
previously Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of
Edinburgh, and has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, and as a
visitor at MIT, Princeton, the Australian National University, the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, and elsewhere. He has published
dentity and Discrimination (Wiley-Blackwell, 1990), Vagueness
(Routledge, 1994), Knowledge and its Limits (Clarendon Press,
2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and
many articles on logic and philosophy.
I am inclined to say that Modal Logic as Metaphysics is the
greatest ever integrated study of the logic and the metaphysics of
modality: it is almost certainly the most comprehensive. [It] is
also, in my judgment, the most important book on the metaphysics of
modality since On The Plurality of Worlds
*John Divers, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research*
a very important addition to the literature... clear, meticulous,
and ingenious... This tightly argued book contains a large number
of interesting arguments, claims, observations, and comments on a
wide variety of topics in modal logic and metaphysics. It reminds
us that there is much useful philosophizing to be done beyond an
incredulous stare.
*Takashi Yagisawa, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
the issues raised by the book are among the most important in
current work on modal metaphysics, and I very much hope that all
metaphysicians of modality make the effort required to come to
terms with its many ideas and arguments.
*M. L. Cresswell, The Philosophical Quarterly,*
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