On Plantinga’s Way Out

IF 0.5 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Axiomathes Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI:10.1007/s10516-024-09717-2
Lifeng Zhang
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The conception of possible worlds, as proposed by Plantinga, presents certain issues, notably its dependence on the prior concept of modality. While Plantinga’s strategy for addressing the enigma of transworld identity carries metaphysical significance, it lacks epistemological value. This deficiency emerges because world-indexed properties do not serve as effective tools in epistemic practice compared to their counterparts, space–time-indexed properties. Moreover, Plantinga’s attempt to isolate transworld identification from transworld identity proves unconvincing. This paper contends that the intelligibility of modal discourse and reference forms the crux of transworld identity. It further demonstrates that transworld identification underpins this intelligibility in an epistemological sense. Therefore, the problem of transworld identification is epistemologically foundational to the issue of transworld identity, necessitating a comprehensive solution.

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普兰廷加的出路
普兰丁加提出的 "可能世界 "概念存在一些问题,特别是它依赖于先前的 "模态 "概念。虽然普兰丁加解决跨世界同一性之谜的策略具有形而上学的意义,但却缺乏认识论的价值。之所以会出现这种缺陷,是因为世界标度属性与其对应的时空标度属性相比,并不能作为认识论实践中的有效工具。此外,普兰丁加试图将跨世界的识别从跨世界的同一性中分离出来的做法也无法令人信服。本文认为,模态话语和指称的可理解性构成了跨世界认同的核心。本文进一步证明,从认识论的意义上讲,跨世界认同是这种可理解性的基础。因此,跨世界认同问题在认识论上是跨世界认同问题的基础,需要全面的解决方案。
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期刊介绍: Axiomathes: Where Science Meets PhilosophyResearch in many fields confirms that science is changing its nature. Natural science, cognitive and social sciences, mathematics and philosophy (i.e., the set of tools developed to understand and model reality) exceed the conceptual framework introduced by Galileo and Descartes. Complexity and chaos; network dynamics; anticipatory systems; qualitative aspects of experience (intentionality, for example); emergent properties and objects; forward, upward, and downward causation: all portend a new scientific agenda.Axiomathes publishes studies of evolving ideas, perspectives, and methods in science, mathematics, and philosophy. Many aspects of this dawning are unknown: there will be startlingly good ideas, and many blind-alleys. We welcome this ferment. While Axiomathes’ scope is left open, scholarly depth, quality and precision of presentation remain prerequisites for publication.Axiomathes welcomes submissions, regardless of the tradition, school of thought, or disciplinary background from which they derive. The members of the journal’s editorial board reflect this approach in the diversity of their affiliations and interests. Axiomathes includes one issue per year under the title Epistemologia. Please see the tab on your right for more information about this joint publication.All submissions are subjected to double-blind peer review, the average peer review time is 3 months.Axiomathes publishes:·       Research articles, presenting original ideas and results.·       Review articles, which comprehensively synthesize and critically assess recent, original works or a selected collection of thematically related books.·       Commentaries, brief articles that comment on articles published previously.·       Book symposia, in which commentators are invited to debate an influential book with the author, who answers with a concluding reply.·       Special issues, in which an expert collaborates with the journal as a guest editor, in order to identify an interesting topic in science, mathematics or philosophy, and interacts with the selected contributors, being in charge of a whole issue of the journal. Axiomathes invites potential guest-editors, who might be interested in collecting and editing such special issue, to contact the Editor in order to discuss the feasibility of the project.·       Focused debates, collecting submissions and invited articles around a particular theme, as part of a normal issue of the journal.·       Authors wishing to submit a reply article, or a proposal for a review article, a book symposium, a special issue or a focused debate, are invited to contact the Editor for further information.
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