Modal Concepts and Possible Worlds

In this video I explain different modal concepts, such as possible and impossible, necessary and contingent; different types of modality, such logical, metaphysical, and nomological; and the difference between de dicto and de re modality. I also illustrate how these different concepts can be illustrated by using possible worlds.

[DelandaBaudLacanian]

thank you, this video opened up more questions than answers haha but it's helping me reframe my own language for myself, thank you

[artrosdestorminus]

Thanks for the video! Very helpful for an introduction in the modal logic and possible worlds.

[dr.williamkallfelz]

Thank you! Extremely illuminating and perspicuous. I will certainly share this with my students in some of my undergrad seminars 🙂🙂🙂🙂

I like how you basically encapsulated most of the themes hashed through, in particular, in Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne's, eds, Conceivability and Possibility (OUP, 2002), David Lewis's On the Plurality of Worlds (Blackwell, 1986), and Marc Lange's Laws and Lawmakers (OUP, 2009), inter alia... what l definitely do NOT assign as required reading to my undergraduates 😉!

[bradmodd]

interesting that people have the will to tangle with logic like this....it makes mathematics look the numbers don't move about on the page like reality does