On Where Things Could Be

Bibliographic Data

ID10704094
AuthorsJack S Russell (0000-0003-3135-8120, corresponding author), Jeffrey Sanford Russell
Year2014
Volume81
Issue1
Pages60-80
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/674344
OpenAlexW2070388123
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited29

Some philosophers respond to Leibniz’s “shift” argument against absolute space by appealing to antihaecceitism about possible worlds, using David Lewis’s counterpart theory. But separated from Lewis’s distinctive system, it is difficult to understand what this doctrine amounts to or how it bears on the Leibnizian argument. In fact, the best way of making sense of the relevant kind of antihaecceitism concedes the main point of the Leibnizian argument, pressing us to consider alternative spatiotemporal metaphysics

Argument (complex analysis) · Doctrine · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Possible world · Theology · Historical Philosophy and Science · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science

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