| Since it seems plausible to think: that things could have been different from the way that they are, it also seems plausible to think: that there are ways that things could have been. Or so I argue in this essay. I defend a version of actualist modal realism: the view that the world we inhabit and call "actual" is but one of infinitely many actually existing possible worlds, and that each of these worlds corresponds to a total way that things might have been. In the space I have available, I have tried to select those issues, arguments and objections that have received substantial attention in the literature from philosophers working in modal metaphysics. |
