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538Ontological omniscience in Lewisian modal realismAnalysis 73 (4): 676-682. 2013.A simple argument against Lewisian modal realism as portrayed in On the Plurality of World arises from its treatment of doxastic modalities. It is easily shown that if it is true, it is impossible to doubt the theory on ontological grounds, or, that, if it is possible to maintain doubt about modal realism’s existential postulate, it has to be false. The argument hinges on the fact that modal realism’s main ontological hypothesis, if true, is necessarily true
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56The Truth about ImpossibilityPhilosophical Quarterly 68 (271): 307-327. 2018.Any worlds semantics for intentionality has to provide a plenitudinous theory of impossibility: For any impossible proposition, it should provide a world where it is true. Hence, also any semantics for impossibility statements that extends Lewis’s concretism about possible worlds should be plenitudinous. However, several such proposals for impossibilist semantics fail to accommodate two kinds of impossibility that, albeit not unheard of, have been largely neglected in the literature on impossibl…Read more
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Tilburg UniversityResearcher
Tilburg, Netherlands
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |