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Modalities and Possible Worlds

Selected Readings:

Adams, Robert M. “Actualism and Thisness,”in Synthese 49 (1981): 3-42.

________. “Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity,” in Philosophy 76 (1979): 5-26.

________. “Theories of Actuality,” in Nous 8 (1974): 211-31.

Armstrong, David. A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

________. “The Nature of Possibility,” in Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1986): 575-94.

Forbes, Graeme. The Metaphysics of Modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Kim, Jaegwon. “Possible Worlds and Armstrong’s Combinatorialism,” in Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1986).

Lewis, David. On the Plurality of Worlds. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

Loux, Michael, ed. The Possible and the Actual. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979.

Plantinga, Alvin. The Nature of Necessity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

Van Fraassen, Bas, “All Necessity is Verbal Necessity,” in Journal of Philosophy 74 (1977): 71-85.

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