The Moral Objection to Modal Realism
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-016-9856-0
Abstract: If David Lewis’s modal realism (MR) is true, then there are many, many people. According to Mark Heller, this is bad news. He takes MR to imply that “there are at least some cases in… read more here.
Keywords: moral objection; modal realism; common sense; sense ... See more keywords
God’s Necessity on Anselmian Theistic Genuine Modal Realism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11841-018-0659-4
Abstract: On Anselmian theism (AT), God is, amongst other things, a necessary being. On genuine modal realism (GMR), possible worlds are maximal mereological sums of spatiotemporally connected individuals. I argue in this paper that AT and… read more here.
Keywords: amongst things; modal realism; genuine modal; gmr ... See more keywords
The Moodless Theory of Modality: An Introduction and Defence
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DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2021.1894585
Abstract: This paper proposes a new reductive theory of modality called the moodless theory of modality. This theory, and not modal realism, is the closest modal analogue of the tenseless theory of time. So if the… read more here.
Keywords: moodless theory; modal realism; theory modality; theory ... See more keywords