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Models for Modalities

Selected Essays

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  1. Jaakko Hintikka
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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 23)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Methodological Orientation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Epistemic Logic and the Methods of Philosophical Analysis

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 3-19

  3. The Logic of Existence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Existential Presuppositions and their Elimination

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 23-44

    3. On the Logic of the Ontological Argument

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 45-54

  4. The Semantics of Modality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Modality and Quantification

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 57-70

    3. The Modes of Modality

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 71-86

    4. Semantics for Propositional Attitudes

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 87-111

    5. Existential Presuppositions and Uniqueness Presuppositions

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 112-147

  5. Conceptual Analyses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. On the Logic of Perception

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 151-183

    3. Deontic Logic and its Philosophical Morals

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 184-214

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 215-222
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About this book

The papers collected in this volume were written over a period of some eight or nine years, with some still earlier material incorporated in one of them. Publishing them under the same cover does not make a con­ tinuous book of them. The papers are thematically connected with each other, however, in a way which has led me to think that they can naturally be grouped together. In any list of philosophically important concepts, those falling within the range of application of modal logic will rank high in interest. They include necessity, possibility, obligation, permission, knowledge, belief, perception, memory, hoping, and striving, to mention just a few of the more obvious ones. When a satisfactory semantics (in the sense of Tarski and Carnap) was first developed for modal logic, a fascinating new set of methods and ideas was thus made available for philosophical studies. The pioneers of this model theory of modality include prominently Stig Kanger and Saul Kripke. Several others were working in the same area independently and more or less concurrently. Some of the older papers in this collection, especially 'Quantification and Modality' and 'Modes of Modality', serve to clarify some of the main possibilities in the semantics of modal logics in general.

About the author

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Models for Modalities

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Essays

  • Authors: Jaakko Hintikka

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1711-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1969

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0078-0Published: 30 April 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0598-3Published: 30 April 1975

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1711-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 222

  • Topics: Logic

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