Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality By K. M. Jaszczolt

摘要

another implies the existence of more than one actual world. There could be onenworld, containing many different mutually irreducible domains. The fact that onendomain cannot be reduced to another does not exclude the possibility that each ofnthese domains is contained within a single world. There may be weaker relations, suchnas supervenience, which hold between these different domains. If, on the other hand,nwe use the word ‘world’ as Scheffler seems to be using the term, as synonymous withn‘the domain of a science’, then the claim that there is more than one world may bentrue, but not as metaphysically radical as it first seemed. Plurealism, construed in thisnway, would just be another way of stating a non-reductionist account of the sciences.nAt times, the monograph within Worlds of Truth reads like a collection of notes.nFor instance, the third chapter contains a brief, inconclusive discussion of the naturenof ethics, raising well-known objections against Ayer and Moore without puttingnforward a clear alternative metaethical theory. An account of how Scheffler sees hisngeneral views on epistemology, truth and metaphysics in relation to metaethics wouldnhave added significantly to the book. This section on ethics is followed by a discussionnof the role of religious rituals within culture that has little relation to the issues discussednthroughout the rest of the text.