Search Results - modal realism

A chance for possibility : an investigation into the grounds of modality / by Steinberg, Alexander, 1979-

Subjects: “…Modality (Logic)…”
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Identity and modality

Table of Contents: “…The limits of contingency / Gideon Rosen -- Modal infallibilism and basic truth / Scott Sturgeon -- The modal fictionalist predicament / John Divers and Jason Hagen -- On realism about chance / Philip Percival -- Structure and identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The identity problem for realist structuralism II : a reply to Shapiro / Jukka Keränen -- The governance of identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The Julius Caesar objection : more problematic than ever / Fraser MacBride -- Sortals and the binding problem / John Campbell -- Vagueness and personal identity / Keith Hossack -- Is there a bodily criterion of personal identity? …”
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Pragmatist metaphysics an essay on the ethical grounds of ontology / by Pihlström, Sami

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Realism, truthmaking, and a pragmatist view on truth and reality -- The transcendental method in pragmatist metaphysics -- Seeking a via media : metaphysical conflicts pragmatically reconsidered -- The ethical grounds of metaphysics -- Modal and moral realisms -- Pragmatism and religious metaphysics.…”
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The chief concern of medicine the integration of the medical humanities and narrative knowledge into medical practices / by Schleifer, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…The functional realism of medicine -- Modalities of science : narrative, phronesis, and the skills of medicine -- The chief concern of medicine : narrative knowledge and schema-based practice -- The logic of diagnosis : peirce, literary narrative, and the history of present illness -- The patient-physician relationship : the scene of narration -- The patient's story : the apprehension of narration -- Doctors listening and attending to patients : response and engagement with acts of narration -- Narrative and medicine : schemas of narration -- Narrative and everyday medical ethics : schemas of action -- Reading the death of Ivan Ilych.…”
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