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Content, the Possible and the Impossible

Content, the Possible and the Impossible
Content, the Possible and the Impossible
What are contents? The answer provided by the possible worlds approach is that contents are sets of possible worlds. This approach incurs serious problems and to solve them Jago suggests, in The Impossible, to get rid of the ‘possible’ bit and allowing some impossible worlds to be part of the game. In this note, I briefly consider the metaphysics behind Jago’s account and then focus on whether Jago is right in thinking that his worlds and his worlds only can do the explanatory work he posits them for.
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Felappi, Giulia
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Felappi, Giulia
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Felappi, Giulia (2017) Content, the Possible and the Impossible. Analysis, 77 (3), 648-658. (doi:10.1093/analys/anw073).

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What are contents? The answer provided by the possible worlds approach is that contents are sets of possible worlds. This approach incurs serious problems and to solve them Jago suggests, in The Impossible, to get rid of the ‘possible’ bit and allowing some impossible worlds to be part of the game. In this note, I briefly consider the metaphysics behind Jago’s account and then focus on whether Jago is right in thinking that his worlds and his worlds only can do the explanatory work he posits them for.

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Accepted/In Press date: 27 December 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 February 2017
Published date: July 2017
Organisations: Philosophy

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Local EPrints ID: 405723
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/405723
ISSN: 0003-2638
PURE UUID: d69b0261-1352-4086-9272-21ed106d4fc2
ORCID for Giulia Felappi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0110-6371

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Date deposited: 18 Feb 2017 00:22
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:01

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