University of Oklahoma
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2000
Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States of America
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    An Essentialist Theory of Modality
    Dissertation, The University of Oklahoma. 2000.
    This dissertation attempts to explain the ontological ground of modality, and the source of our knowledge of modal facts. The standard accounts of modal metaphysics, possible world theories, can explain neither the truth of modal concepts nor how we could come to know them. The concept of a possible world is as coherent as the concept of a set of all truths, and such sets are ultimately paradoxical. If no other account of modality can be given, then recent philosophical advances using modal conc…Read more