Publication details

Odpověď profesoru Maternovi

Title in English A Reply to Professor Materna
Authors

BĚLOHRAD Radim

Year of publication 2001
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Profil - Elektronický časopis pro filozofii
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://profil.muni.cz/01_2001/belohrad_review.html
Keywords individuals, possible worlds, trans-world identity, temporal identity, presentism, actualism, possibilism
Description In this work I reply to Professor Materna's objections to my work Identity, Modality, and Time. I argue that Lewis' possible worlds are concrete objects; the indexical conception of the actual worlds is implausible; modality de re is not reducible to modality de dicto only on the condition that we accept flexible domain of individuals; we must accept flexible domain in order to explain contingency of material objects.

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