MODAL LOGIC AS METAPHYSICS C

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Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College Oxford. He was previously Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, and has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, and as a visitor at MIT, Princeton, the Australian National University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and elsewhere. He has published dentity and Discrimination (Wiley-Blackwell, 1990), Vagueness (Routledge, 1994), Knowledge and its Limits (Clarendon Press, 2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and many articles on logic and philosophy.

- Preface
- 1: Contingentism and Necessitism
- 2: The Barcan Formula and its Converse: Early Developments
- 3: Possible Worlds Model Theory
- 4: Predication and Modality
- 5: From First-Order to Higher-Order Modal Logic
- 6: Intensional Comprehension Principles and Metaphysics
- 7: Mappings between Contingentist and Necessitist Discourse
- 8: Consequences of necessitism
- Methodological Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index