Explorations

Future Paths of Phenomenology

1st OPHEN Summer Meeting

Repository | Journal | Volume | Article

236150

Modal truthmakers and two varieties of actualism

Gabriele Contessa

pp. 341-353

Abstract

In this paper, I distinguish between two varieties of actualism—hardcore actualism and softcore actualism—and I critically discuss Ross Cameron’s recent arguments for preferring a softcore actualist account of the truthmakers for modal truths over hardcore actualist ones. In the process, I offer some arguments for preferring the hardcore actualist account of modal truthmakers over the softcore actualist one.

Publication details

Published in:

(2010) Synthese 174 (3).

Pages: 341-353

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9456-x

Full citation:

Contessa Gabriele (2010) „Modal truthmakers and two varieties of actualism“. Synthese 174 (3), 341–353.