认识可能世界的新视角:可能性的组合理论

A New Perspective to Understand Possible World:Combinatorial Theory of Possibility

可能性与可能世界的问题一直是西方哲学史上的一个重要问题,也在分析哲学内部引发激烈争论,成为当代分析形而上学的一个中心议题。发端于维特根斯坦,并由阿姆斯特朗系统化的组合主义思想给予可能性与可能世界一个崭新、融贯的解释。随着组合理论的提出,金在权、布拉德雷等人也对之做出深入、有力的批评。如何更好地回应这些批评,这关系到可能性的组合理论是否能够成为解释可能性和可能世界的代表性理论。

Possibility and possible world have always been important issues in the history of the western philosophy.Possible world also causes important controversies within the analytic philosophy and has become a central issue in contemporary analytic metaphysics.The combinatorial theory of possibility gives new and coherent explanations about possibility and possible world.With the introduction of this theory,Jaegwon Kim et al.also made crucial criticisms.We need to respond to these critiques and reveal the theoretical value of combinatorialism.