Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences
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Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences

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Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2010
ISBN
9783110866858
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Opening Address
  3. Session 1: Philosophy
  4. Possible Worlds in History of Science
  5. Discussion of Thomas S. Kuhn’s paper “Possible Worlds in History of Science”
  6. Discussion of Thomas S. Kuhn’s paper “Possible Worlds in History of Science”
  7. Speaker’s Reply
  8. Exploring Possible Worlds
  9. On Doughnutting. Discussion of Jaakko Hintikka’s paper “Exploring Possible Worlds”
  10. Transworld Journeys. Report on Session 1: Philosophy
  11. Session 2: Linguistics
  12. Possible Worlds in Model-Theoretic Semantics: A Linguistic Perspective
  13. Possible Worlds and Subject Matter. Discussion of Barbara H. Partee’s paper “Possible Worlds in Model-Theoretic Semantics: A Linguistic Perspective”
  14. Some Caveats with Respect to Possible Worlds. Discussion of Barbara H. Partee’s paper “Possible Worlds in Model-Theoretic Semantics: A Linguistic Perspective”
  15. Speaker’s Reply
  16. Connexity, Interpretability, Universes of Discourse, and Text Worlds
  17. Possible Worlds and Enkvist’s Worlds. Discussion of Nils Erik Enkvist’s paper “Connexity, Interpretability, Universes of Discourse, and Text Worlds”
  18. The World of Words – and Pictures. Discussion of Nils Erik Enkvist’s paper “Connexity, Interpretability, Universes of Discourse, and Text Worlds”
  19. Possible Worlds – Text Worlds. Quo vadis Linguistica? Report on Session 2: Linguistics
  20. Session 3: Literature and Arts
  21. Possible Worlds and Literary Fictions
  22. Discussion of Lubomír Doležel’s paper “Possible Worlds and Literary Fictions”
  23. Fictional Worlds and the Economy of the Imaginary
  24. Duality and Deviance: Two Semantic Modes. Discussion of Thomas Pavel’s paper “Fictional Worlds and the Economy of the Imaginary”
  25. Fictional and Ontological Landscapes. Discussion of Thomas Pavel’s paper “Fictional Worlds and the Economy of the Imaginary”
  26. Possible Worlds – A Chorus of a Multitude of Souls. A Writer’s Perspective
  27. Possible Worlds: A Historical Perspective in Literature. Discussion of Lars Gyllensten’s paper “Possible Worlds – A Chorus of a Multitude of Souls. A Writer’s Perspective”
  28. Possible Worlds – But for Whom? Discussion of Lars Gyllensten’s paper “Possible Worlds – A Chorus of a Multitude of Souls. A Writer’s Perspective”
  29. Speaker’s Reply
  30. Image and Dimension
  31. Pictorial Possibility. Discussion of Ulf Linde’s paper “Image and Dimension”
  32. Discussion of Ulf Linde’s paper “Image and Dimension”
  33. Report on Session 3: Literature and Arts
  34. Session 4: Natural Science
  35. Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics
  36. On Characterizing Possible Worlds of Physics. Discussion of J. S. Bell’s paper “Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics”
  37. Discussion of J. S. Bell’s paper “Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics”
  38. Our Universe and Others: The Limits of Space, Time and Physics
  39. How to Describe Physical Reality? Discussion of Martin J. Rees’s paper “Our Universe and Others: The Limits of Space, Time and Physics”
  40. The Uniformity of the Universe. Discussion of Martin J. Rees’s paper “Our Universe and Others: The Limits of Space, Time and Physics”
  41. Report on Session 4: Natural Science
  42. List of Contributors