Review of Modality and Tense : Philosophical Papers

This is a collection of Kit Fine’s nontechnical papers in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. Recent work on essence is omitted, as are papers in the philosophy of mathematics and on mixtures, compounds and aggregates. Nevertheless, this volume provides an excellent overview of Fine’s penetrating investigations into central areas of philosophy. Two of the papers are previously unpublished, one appeared only in considerably shorter form and the remainder are gathered from a scattered assortment of journals and anthologies published over the last thirty years. It is a great convenience to have them all nicely organized into a single attractive volume.