Introduction
I. Ways and Worlds
1: Possible Worlds
2: On What Possible Worlds Could Not Be
3: Impossibilities
II. Carving Up Logical Space
4: Anti-Essentialism
5: Varieties of Supervenience
III. Identity In and Across Possible Worlds
6: Counterparts and Identity
7: Vague Identity
8: The Interaction of Modality with Quantifiers and Identity
IV. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics
9: Reference and Necessity
10: On Considering a Possible World as Actual
11: Conceptual Truth and Metaphysical Necessity
V. Subjective Possibilities
12: What is it Like to be a Zombie?
13: Comparing Qualia Across Persons
14: On Thomas Nagel's Objective Self
`This collection brings together important essays of consistently
high quality by a leading contemporary metaphysician. The prospect
of a collection offers the author the opportunity to take an
overview of his work and to identify its core and unifying themes.
And when this opportunity is taken, what is distinctive and
demanding of our attention in the authors work emerges more clearly
and the work itself emerges with added significance. Robert
Stalnaker
has taken this opportunity, and so Ways a World Might Be is a
collection which stands as a genuinely valuable addition to his
previously published work and to the literature of contemporary
metaphysics.'
John Divers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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