Books like Modal Logic As Metaphysics
Loved Modal Logic As Metaphysics by Timothy Williamson? Here are 6 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
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- 1Naming and Necessity
Naming and Necessity
Saul A. KripkeKripke's lectures on the semantics of names and necessary truths are a foundational text for the modal and metaphysical questions Williamson takes up.
- 2On the Plurality of Worlds
On the Plurality of Worlds
David K. LewisLewis defends a realist view of possible worlds, which gives the contrasting position to the necessitist claims that Williamson argues against.
- 3The Nature of Necessity
The Nature of Necessity
Alvin PlantingaPlantinga's study of modal concepts, essence and possible worlds covers much of the same ground on necessity and possibility from a different angle.
- 4Counterfactuals
Counterfactuals
David K. LewisLewis's account of counterfactual conditionals uses the same possible-worlds semantics that Williamson's logic builds on.
- 5A New Introduction to Modal Logic
A New Introduction to Modal Logic
M. J. CresswellThis textbook gives the standard formal background on modal systems and semantics that readers need before the more advanced arguments in Williamson's book.
- 6Four-Dimensionalism
Four-Dimensionalism
Theodore SiderSider's account of persistence and temporal parts addresses the identity-over-time questions that Williamson treats through modal and temporal logic.
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