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Possible worlds by Girle, Rod

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Actual minds, possible worlds by Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)

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Non-locality and possible worlds a counterfactual perspective on quantum entanglement / by Bigaj, Tomasz F.

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Possible worlds in humanities, arts, and sciences proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65 /

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Persistence through time, and across possible worlds by Benovsky, Jiri

Table of Contents: “…Persistence across possible worlds.…”
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Possible worlds semantics for indicative and counterfactual conditionals? a formal philosophical inquiry into Chellas-Segerberg semantics / by Unterhuber, Matthias

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Another world is possible : world social forum proposals for an alternative gobalization /

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Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning /

Table of Contents: “…5 About the Transnational Network Other Knowledges: La Red Trasnacional Otros Saberes (RETOS) between crises and other possible worlds, Red Trasnacional Otros Saberes; --PART II Voice--; --…”
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Leibniz a guide for the perplexed / by Perkins, Franklin

Table of Contents: “…Context of Leibniz's philosophy -- Difficulties of reading Leibniz -- Using this book -- GOD AND THE BEST POSSIBLE WORLD. Two principles of knowledge -- The existence of god -- The nature of God -- The best of all possible worlds -- SUBSTANCES. …”
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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Myth and the institutional construction of postmodernism in The Friday book -- Folk culture, the archive, and the work of the imaginary -- Fiction, fraud, and fakes -- Style and symptom in postmodern science fiction -- Role playing games, possible world theory, and the fictionality of assemblage -- Institutional sutures in electronic writing -- Fictionality in the public sphere.…”
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Productive Fandom : Intermediality and Affective Reception in Fan Cultures / by Lamerichs, Nicolle

Table of Contents: “…Shared narratives : intermediality in fandom -- Fan membership : traditional and digital fieldwork -- Naturalizing Sherlock : Dutch fans interpret the famous -- Queer teen drama : rewriting and narrative closure in Glee -- Transmedia play : approaching the possible worlds of Firefly -- Embodied characters : the affective process of cosplay -- Conclusion : prospects for fan studies.…”
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Adventures in unfashionable philosophy by Felt, James W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Preface (2008) -- On being yourself (1968) -- Invitation to a philosophic revolution (1971) -- the temporality of divine freedom (1974) -- Philosophic understanding and the continuity of becoming (1978) -- Transmutation and Whitehead's elephant (1981) -- Coming around again in philosophy (1982) -- Impossible worlds (1983) -- God's choice : reflections on evil in a created world (1984) -- Whitehead's misconception of "substance" in Aristotle (1985) -- Intuition, event-atomism, and the self (1987) -- Faces of time (1987) -- Fatalism and truth about the future (1992) -- Relational realism and the great deception of sense (1994) -- Why possible worlds aren't (1996) -- Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming (2000) -- Epochal time and the continuity of experience (2003) -- "Know yourself!" …”
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Robert Nozick by Bader, Ralf M.

Table of Contents: “…Biography -- Nozick's life -- Nozick's approach to philosophy -- Critical exposition -- The moral foundation -- Rights considered as side constraints -- The basis of libertarian side constraints -- Against anarchy -- State of nature theorizing -- From anarchy to the minimal state -- Nothing more than the minimal state -- Theories of justice -- Against patterns -- Moral luck, equality and entitlements -- The minimal state as an inspiring utopia -- The best possible world -- Individuality, diversity and the minimal state -- Beyond anarchy, state, and utopia -- Reception and influence -- Critique of rights-based libertarianism -- Against the legitimate state -- More than the minimal state? …”
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Unreliable narration and trustworthiness : intermedial and interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…: some reflections on narrative (un)reliability; Vera Nünning / Reconceptualising fictional (un)reliability and (un)trustworthiness from a multidisciplinary perspective: categories, typology and functions; Bo Pettersson / Kinds of unreliability in fiction: narratorial, focal, expositional and combined; Robert Vogt / Combining possible-worlds theory and cognitive theory: towards an explanatory model for ironic-unreliable narration, ironic-unreliable focalization, ambiguous-unreliable and alterated-unreliable narration in literary fiction; Gunther Martens / Unreliability in non-fiction: the case of the unreliable addressee -- Transgeneric and intermedial approaches. …”
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