Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and
70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which …

Abstract Many philosophers, following David Lewis, believe that we should look to
counterpart theory, not quantified modal logic, as a means of understanding modal …

Antihaecceitists believe that all facts about specific individuals—such as the fact that Fred
exists, or that Katie is tall—globally supervene on purely qualitative facts. Haecceitists deny …

Possible Worlds and the Objective World Page 1 Possible Worlds and the Objective World by
Jeffrey Russell A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree …

Just as set theory can be divorced from Ernst Zermelo's original axiomatization of it,
counterpart theory can be divorced from the eight postulates that were originally stipulated …

The counterpart theorist has a problem: there is no obvious way to understand talk about
actuality in terms of counterparts. Fara and Williamson have charged that this obstacle …

Counterpart theory is often advertised by its track record at solving metaphysical puzzles.
Here I focus on puzzles of occasional identity, wherein distinct individuals at one world or …

Abstract Lewis (The Journal of Philosophy, 65 (5), 113–126,) attempts to provide an account
of modal talk in terms of the resources of counterpart theory, a first-order theory that eschews …

David Lewis's modal realism claims that nothing can exist in more than one world or time,
and that statements about how something would have been are to be analysed in terms of …

This thesis is about Counterpart Theory (CT), which is a theory of translation thatrenders
expressionsof quantifiedmodal logic (QML) into expressionsof a nonmodal first-order …