Ways a World Might Be
Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays
Stalnaker, Robert C. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Print publication date: 2003 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925148-3
doi:10.1093/0199251487.003.0012
Robert C. Stalnaker
This paper discusses the basic two-dimensional framework and identifies the requirements to apply it to the phenomena of speech and thought. It then contrasts two kinds of interpretation — two ways of applying the abstract two-dimensional framework — that suggest different pictures of the phenomena Kripke brought to light. It shows what must be assumed about how the problem of intentionality must be solved to sustain the kind of general reduction of necessary a posteriori truth that Jackson and Chalmers propose.
Keywords: conceptual truth, metaphysical necessity, two-dimensional framework, speech, thought, intentionality,
doi:10.1093/0199251487.003.0012
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Part1 Ways and Worlds
Part II Carving up Logical Space
Part III Identity in and across Possible Worlds
Part IV Semantics, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics
Part V Subjective Possibilities