CROSS-WORLD COMPARATIVES FOR MODAL REALISTS

• Authors: Michels Robert
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Divers (2014) argues that a Lewisian theory of modality which includes both counterpart theory and modal realism cannot account for the truth of certain intuitively true modal sentences involving cross-world comparatives. The main purpose of this paper is to defend the Lewisian theory against Divers’s challenge by developing a response strategy based on a degree-theoretic treatment of comparatives and by showing that this treatment is compatible with the theory.

Keywords

EN

COMPARATIVES; COUNTERPART THEORY; LEWIS DAVID; DIVERS JOHN; MODAL REALISM; MODALITY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 368 – 391

Contributors

author

Michels Robert

• Eidos & Institut de philosophie, Université de Neuchâtel Espace Louis -Agassiz 1, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland