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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July 2017
Felappi, Giulia
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Abstract
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
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Local EPrints ID: 405723
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/405723
ISSN: 0003-2638
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