CONCRETE IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS

• Authors: Martin Vacek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with such a modification of genuine modal realism as to accommodate impossible worlds into its ontology. First of all, the theory of modal realism is presented. Next, several motivations for the acceptance of impossible worlds are adduced. Further, Lewis’s argument against impossible worlds is presented. It is argued that the argument can be weakened by rejection of one of its premises. Finally, two objections against the proposal are countered. Although my strategy accounts for the Opinion concerning the impossible, it allegedly violates another Opinion which conceives the reality classical. It seems, however, that there is no no-question-begging reason to think that reality is classical. How can we know, after all, which logic describes reality? Without a definite answer to the question, the incredibility objection then simply collapses into a statement of a possibility dogma.

Keywords

EN

MODALITY; POSSIBLE WORLD; MODAL REALISM; IMPOSSIBLE WORLD

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 523 – 529

Contributors

author

Martin Vacek

• Filozofický ústav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava 1, Slovak Republic