{"product_id":"9781441142719","title":"Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds","description":"\u003ci\u003eActuality, Possibility and Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the  Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal  powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical  approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are  implausible.The notion of possible worlds appears to be useful for many  purposes, such as the analysis of counterfactuals or elucidating the  nature of propositions and properties. This usefulness of possible  worlds makes for a second general question: Are there any possible  worlds and, if so, what are they? Are they concrete universes as David  Lewis thinks, Platonic abstracta as per Robert M. Adams and Alvin  Plantinga, or maybe linguistic or mathematical constructs such as Heller  thinks? Or is perhaps Leibniz right in thinking that possibilia are not  on par with actualities and that abstracta can only exist in a mind, so  that possible worlds are ideas in the mind of God?","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128050827504,"sku":"9781441142719","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441142719_p0.jpg?v=1763793538","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441142719","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}