Representing Counterparts

Representing Counterparts

This paper presents and motivates a counterpart theoretic semantics for quantified modal logic based on a fleshed out account of Lewis’s notion of a ‘possibility.’ According to the account a possibility consists of a world and some haecceitistic information about how each possible individual gets represented de re. A semantics for quantified modal logic based on evaluating formulae at possibili...

What Incongruent Counterparts Show

In a recent paper, Robert Hanna argues that Kant’s incongruent counterparts example can be mobilized to show that some mental representations, which represent complex states of affairs as complex, do so entirely non-conceptually. I will argue that Hanna is right to see that Kant uses incongruent counterparts to show that there must be a non-conceptual component to cognition, but goes too far in...

Counterparts within Actuality

On one interpretation, haecceitism is the doctrine that there are distinct possible worlds that are qualitatively just alike. On another interpretation, haecceitism is the doctrine that there are distinct possible worlds that are qualitatively just alike and also differ with respect to the de-re possibilities they represent for some individual— with respect, that is, to how they represent that ...

Counterparts and Actuality

OR Counterparts to AI Planning

The term Planning is not used in Operations Research in the sense that is most common in Arti"cial Intelligence. AI Planning does have many features in common with OR scheduling, sequencing, routing, and assignment problems, however. Current approaches to solving such problems can be broadly classi"ed into four areas: Combinatorial Optimization, Integer Programming, Constraint Programming, and ...