The topic of this course will be Timothy Williamson's "Modal Logic as Metaphysics". The syllabus consists of this book, as well as some background readings.
Timothy Williamson. "Modal Logic as Metaphysics". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
George Boolos. "To Be is to be a Value of a Variable (or to be Some Values of Some Variables)". The Journal of Philosophy 81:430-449, 1984.
George Boolos. "Nominalist Platonism". The Philosophical Review 94:327-344, 1985.
Kit Fine. "Prior on the Construction of Possible Worlds and Instants" (introduction). In his "Modality and Tense", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Originally published 1977.
Kit Fine. "Properties, Propositions and Sets" (sect. I). Journal of Philosophical Logic 6:135-191, 1977.
Kit Fine. "The Problem of Possibilia". In his "Modality and Tense", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Originally published 2003.
Saul Kripke. "Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic". Acta Philosophica Fennica 16:83-94, 1963.
Saul Kripke. "Identity and Necessity". In his "Philosophical Troubles", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Originally published 1971.
Saul Kripke. "Naming and Necessity" (pp. 34-57). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Originally published 1972.
David Lewis. "On the Plurality of Worlds" (sect. 1.1, 1.2 and 4.1). Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
Alvin Plantinga. "On existentialism". Philosophical Studies 44:1-20, 1983.
Arthur Prior. "Modality and Quantification in S5". The Journal of Symbolic Logic 21:60-62, 1956.
Arthur Prior. "Platonism and Quantification". In his "Objects of Thought", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Agustín Rayo. "The Construction of Logical Space" (sect. 5.2). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Robert Stalnaker. "The interaction of modality with quantification and identity". In his "Ways a World Might Be", Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.
Robert Stalnaker. "Mere Possibilities" (pp. 1-32). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Timothy Williamson. "The Philosophy of Philosophy" (sect. 5.1-5.4). Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
In total 732.