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Apr 29, 2024
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PHIL 185A PO - Topics in Metaphysics
CrsNo PHIL185A PO
When Offered: Last offered spring 2011.
Instructor(s): J. Atlas
Conceivability, possibility, necessity and related notions have played a role in philosophy from Anselm’s 11th-century ontological argument to Kurt Goedel’s 20th-century one; from Descartes’s 17th-century argument for mind-body dualism to Saul Kripke’s 20th-century one. Seminar reviews the elements of formal modal logic and assesses the role of modal notions in metaphysical arguments. Prerequisite: PHIL 120 PO .
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