01413nam a2200313 a 4500 EDZ0000077263 StDuBDS 20150804193946.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110510s2011 nyu fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199894970 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS BD111 110 22 Stroud, Barry. Engagement and metaphysical dissatisfaction [electronic resource] : modality and value / Barry Stroud. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource. We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. Barry Stroud argues that some beliefs of each of these kinds are indispensable to our having any conception of a world at all. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). Includes bibliographical references and index. Metaphysics. Causation. Necessity (Philosophy) Value. Print version 9780199764969 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199764969.001.0001 38404 38404