Modality, Morality, and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus

Abstract

Part I. Modality: 1. Ruth Barcan Marcus and the Barcan Formula Terence Parsons 2. The interaction of modality with quantification and identity Robert Stalnaker 3. S1 is not so simple Maxwell J. Cresswell 4. A problem in possible-world semantics David Kaplan 5. Senses of essence Kit Fine 6. Structuralism and the concept of set Charles Parsons 7. The Kant-Frege-Russell view of existence David Wiggins Part II. Morality: 8. Moral dilemmas revisited Philippa Foot 9. Perspectival Guilt Patricia S. Greenspan 10. Instigating the unpredisposed Joel Feinberg 11. Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities Nuel Belnap and Paul Bartha Part III. Belief: 12. Pierre, Saul, Ruth and Bob and a puzzle about belief Robert J. Fogelin 13. Closure and consistency Issac Levi 14. De Re Belief, action explanations and the essential indexical Ernest Sosa 15. T-sentences Scott Soames.