Ruth Charlotte Barcan Marcus and Herbert Paul Felton Grice

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Modality, Morality and Belief:
Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus [Hardcover]
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Editor), Diana Raffman (Editor), Nicholas Asher (Editor)

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Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Charlotte Barcan Marcus and Herbert Paul Felton Grice.

Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop new positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism, and the explanation of actions by beliefs.

Together, this collection honors one of the most rigorous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.
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"In an intersting and wide-ranging discussion, Parsons surveys various explanations and justifications provided by mathematicians and philosophers, concluding that ontological features do not play an essential role in the development of ZF, and need not be taken to be part of the literal truth about sets." Philip Bricker, Journal of Symbolic Logic

Book Description

Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop new positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism, and the explantion of actions by beliefs. This state of the art collection honors one of the most rigorous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.

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Product Details
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; First Edition edition (January 27, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521440823
ISBN-13: 978-0521440820
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches