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Cover
Impossible Worlds
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Outline of the Book
Acknowledgements
Part I. Impossibilities
1. From Possible to Impossible Worlds
1.1 Worlds as Ways
1.2 Possible Worlds at Work
Possibility and Necessity
Propositions
Knowledge and Belief
Information
Indicative Conditionals
Counterfactual Conditionals
1.3 The Problem(s) of Hyperintensionality
Propositions: Triviality
Knowledge and Belief: Logical Omniscience
Information: Triviality and Overload
Indicative Conditionals: Irrelevance
Counterfactual Conditionals: Counterpossibles
1.4 Impossible Worlds
1.5 Conceivability and Possibility
Chapter Summary
2. Metaphysics
2.1 Ways of Thinking about Worlds
2.2 Genuine Realism
Lewisian Realism
Yagisawaian Realism
McDanielian Realism
2.3 Non-existent Worlds
2.4 Ersatz Modal Realism
2.5 The Hybrid View
2.6 Encoding Worlds
2.7 Primitivism about Worlds
2.8 Fictionalism
Chapter Summary
3. Ersatz Modal Realism
3.1 Classifying Ersatz Theories
3.2 Maximal States of Affairs
3.3 Property Ersatzism
3.4 Combinatorial Ersatzism
3.5 Map Ersatzism
3.6 Propositional and Linguistic Ersatzism
3.7 Alien Entities
Chapter Summary
Part II. Logical Applications
4. Modal Logics
4.1 Normal Modal Logics
4.2 Non-Normal Modal Logics
4.3 Non-Uniform Truth Conditions
4.4 Non-Adjunctive and Non-Prime Worlds
Chapter Summary
5. Epistemic Logics
5.1 Standard Epistemic Logic and Logical Omniscience
5.2 Dealing with Omniscience without Impossible Worlds
5.3 Impossible Worlds for Knowledge and Belief
5.4 Closure under a Weaker Logic
5.5 Going Dynamic
Chapter Summary
6. Relevant Logics
6.1 Basic Relevant Logic
6.2 Stronger Relevant Logics
6.3 Relevant Worlds as Information States
6.4 Conditionality Interpretations
6.5 The Truthmaking Interpretation
Chapter Summary
7. The Logic of Imagination
7.1 Hyperintensional Imagination
7.2 A Semantics of Imagination
7.3 The Mereology of Imagination
7.4 The Under-Determinacy of Imagination
7.5 Non-Monotonicity and Relevance
7.6 Imaginative Equivalents
Chapter Summary
Part III. Philosophical Applications
8. Hyperintensionality
8.1 Is Hyperintensionality Real?
8.2 The Epistemic Case
8.3 The Case from Content
8.4 The Granularity Issue
8.5 The Compositionality Objection
Chapter Summary
9. Information and Content
9.1 Informative Statements
9.2 Information as Ruling Out Scenarios
9.3 Informative Identities
9.4 Informative Inference
9.5 Vague Logical Information
9.6 What Is Said
Chapter Summary
10. Epistemic and Doxastic Contents
10.1 Belief States
10.2 The Impossible Worlds Approach
10.3 The Problem of Bounded Rationality
10.4 Bounded Rationality and Vagueness
10.5 Belief and Trivial Inference
10.6 Believing Contradictions
Chapter Summary
11.Fiction and Fictional Objects
11.1 Problems of Fiction
11.2 Truth in Fiction
11.3 Hyperintensional Fictions
11.4 A Formal Semantics
11.5 Realism and Fictionalism about Fictional Entities
11.6 Non-existent Objects and Impossible Worlds
Chapter Summary
12. Counterpossible Conditionals
12.1 Why Counterpossibles?
12.2 A Semantics for Counterpossibles
12.3 The Strangeness of Impossibility Condition
12.4 Substitutivity of Identicals
12.5 Reductio Arguments
12.6 Intuitions for Non-Vacuism
Thinking it Through
A Heuristic?
Vacuous Quantification
Chapter Summary
Bibliography
Index
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