Modality

Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-967150-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions--are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the papers address fundamental questions concerning realism and anti-realism about modality, the nature and basis of facts about what is possible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence and to counterfactual reasoning. The general introduction locates the individual contributions in the wider context of the contemporary discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of modality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hale, Bob

Hoffmann, Aviv

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: METAPHYSICS and LOGIC

- 1: Robert Stalnaker: Merely Possible Propositions

- Response to Robert Stalnaker

- 2: Ian Rumfitt: Logical Necessity

- 3: Kit Fine: Semantic Necessity

- 4: Timothy Williamson: Modal Logic within Counterfactual Logic

- 5: David Efird: Is Timothy Williamson a Necessary Existent?

- 6: Gideon Rosen: Metaphysical Dependence: Grounding and Reduction

- 7: Ross Cameron: On the Source of Necessity

- 8: Anna Sherratt: The Reality of Modality

- 9: Scott Shalkowksi: IBE, GMR, and Metaphysical Projects

- 10: John Divers: Modal Commitments

- Response to John Divers

- Part II: EPISTEMOLOGY

- 11: Stephen Yablo: Permission and (So-Called Epistemic) Possibility

- Response to Stephen Yablo

- 12: Frank Jackson: Possible Worlds and the Necessary A Posteriori

- Response to Frank Jackson

- 13: Scott Sturgeon: Apriorism about Modality

- Response to Scott Sturgeon

- 14: Dominic Gregory: Conceivability and Apparent Possibility

- Response to Dominic Gregory

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bob Hale is Professor of Philosophy at Sheffield University. He has been a British Academy Research Reader (1997-99), and a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (2009-11). He previously taught at the University of Glasgow, the University of St. Andrews, and Lancaster University. He works mainly on the philosophy of mathematics and philosophical logic.

Aviv Hoffmann is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University of Israel.