John Divers (divers)

Contributions à Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Divers, John. 1992. “Modal Supervenience and Modal Realism.” Theoria 58: 99–115.
Divers, John. 1994. “On the Prohibitive Cost of Indiscernible Concrete Possible Worlds.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72(3): 384–389, doi:10.1080/00048409412346181.
Divers, John. 1995. “Modal Fictionalism Cannot Deliver Possible Worlds Semantics.” Analysis 55(2): 81–88.
Divers, John. 1996. “Supervenience for Operators.” Synthese 106: 103–112.
Divers, John. 1997. “The Analysis of Possibility and the Possibility of Analysis.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97: 141–160.
Divers, John. 1998a. “Recent Work on Supervenience.” Philosophical Books 39(2): 81–91.
Divers, John. 1998b. “Modal Fictionalism – A Happy Ending?” in The Logica Yearbook 1997, edited by Timothy Childers, pp. 208–221. Praha: Filosofia. Nakladetelstvı́ Filosofického ústavu AV ČR.
Divers, John. 1999a. “A Modal Fictionalist Result.” Noûs 33(3): 317–346.
Divers, John. 1999b. “A Genuine Realist Theory of Advanced Modalizing.” Mind 108(430): 217–239, doi:10.1093/mind/108.430.217.
Divers, John. 1999c. “Kant’s Criteria of the A Priori.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80: 17–45.
Divers, John. 2002. Possible Worlds. The Problems of Philosophy, their Past and Present. London: Routledge.
Divers, John. 2004. “Agnosticism About Other Worlds: A New Anti-Realist Programme in Modality.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69(3): 660–685.
Divers, John. 2006. “Possible-Worlds Semantics Without Possible Worlds: The Agnostic Approach.” Mind 115(458): 187–187.
Divers, John. 2007a. “Quinean Scepticism About De Re Modality After David Lewis.” European Journal of Philosophy 15(1): 40–62.
Divers, John. 2007b. “The Modal Metaphysics of Alvin Plantinga.” in Alvin Plantinga, edited by Deane-Peter Baker, pp. 71–92. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Divers, John. 2008. “Coincidence and Form.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 82: 119–137.
Divers, John. 2009. “Possible Worlds and possibilia.” in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Robin Le Poidevin, Peter M. Simons, Andrew McGonigal, and Ross P. Cameron, pp. 335–345. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203879306.
Divers, John. 2010. “Modal Commitments.” in Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology, edited by Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffmann, pp. 189–219. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565818.001.0001.
Divers, John. 2012. “Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction.” Analysis 72(4): 824–831.
Divers, John. 2013. “The Analysis of Possibility and the Extent of Possibility.” Dialectica 67(2): 183–200.
Divers, John. 2014a. “The Modal Status of the Lewisian Analysis of Modality.” Mind 123(491): 861–872.
Divers, John. 2014b. “An Inconvenient Modal Truth.” Analysis 74(4): 575–577.
Divers, John. 2014c. “Review of Stalnaker (2012).” The Philosophical Quarterly 64(254): 163–166.
Divers, John. 2017. “De re Modality in the Late Twentieth Century: The Prescient Quine.” in The Actual and the Possible: Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy, edited by Mark Sinclair, pp. 217–236. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198786436.001.0001.
Divers, John. 2018. “On some Arguments for the Necessity and Irreducibility of Necessity.” in Being Necessary. Themes of Ontology and Modality from the Work of Bob Hale, edited by Ivette Fred-Rivera and Jessica F. Leech, pp. 15–35. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198792161.001.0001.
Divers, John. 2021. “Modal Anti-Realism.” in The Routledge Handbook of Modality, edited by Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski, pp. 125–135. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Divers, John and Elstein, Daniel Y. 2012. “Manifesting Belief in Absolute Necessity.” Philosophical Studies 158(1): 109–130.
Divers, John and Hagen, Jason. 2006. “The Modal Fictionalist Predicament.” in Identity and Modality, edited by Fraser MacBride, pp. 57–73. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Divers, John and Liggins, David. 2005. “Fictionalism.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Divers, John and Melia, Joseph. 2002. “The Analytic Limit of Genuine Modal Realism.” Mind 111(441): 15–36.
Divers, John and Melia, Joseph. 2003. “Genuine Modal Realism Limited.” Mind 112(445): 83–86.
Divers, John and Melia, Joseph. 2006. “Genuine Modal Realism: Still Limited.” Mind 115(459): 731–?
Divers, John and Miller, Alexander. 1995. “Minimalism and the Unbearable Lightness of Being.” Philosophical Papers 24(2): 127–139.
Divers, John and Miller, Alexander. 1999. “Arithmetical Platonism: Reliability and Judgement-Dependence.” Philosophical Studies 95(3): 277–310.
Divers, John and Parry, John J. 2018. “Advanced Modalizing de dicto and de re.” Analysis 78(3): 415–425.

Further References

Stalnaker, Robert C. 2012. Mere Possibilities: Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, doi:10.23943/princeton/9780691147123.001.0001.