Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them

by Bob Hale

Book Overview

Necessary Beings is concerned with two central areas of metaphysics: modality--the theory of necessity, possibility, and other related notions; and ontology--the general study of what kinds of entities there are. Bob Hale's overarching purpose is to develop and defend two quite general theses about what is required for the existence of entities of various kinds: that questions about what kinds of things there are cannot be properly understood or adequately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199669570
• ISBN13: 9780199669578
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"