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Modality : metaphysics, logic, and epistemology / edited by Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modality (Logic).
- Logic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 363 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Metaphysics, logic, and epistemology
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 ispossible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence
- Contents:
- Introduction / Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffmann
- Metaphysics and logic. Merely possible propositions / Robert Stalnaker ; Response to Robert Stalnaker / Aviv Hoffmann ; Logical necessity / Ian Rumfitt ; Semantic Necessity / Kit Fine ; Modal logic within counterfactual logic / Timothy Williamson ; Is Timothy Williamson a Necessary Existent? / David Efird ; Metaphysical dependence : grounding and reduction / Gideon Rosen ; On the source of necessity / Ross P. Cameron ; The reality of modality / Anna Sherratt ; IBE, GMR, and metaphysical projects / Scott A. Shalkowski ; Modal commitments / John Divers ; Response to John Divers / Daniel Nolan
- Epistemology. Permission and (so-called epistemic) possibility / Stephen Yablo ; Response to Stephen Yablo / David Efird ; Possible worlds and the necessary a posteriori / Frank Jackson ; Response to Frank Jackson / Penelope Mackie ; Apriorism about modality / Scott Sturgeon ; Response to Scott Sturgeon / C.S. Jenkins ; Conceivability and apparent possibility / Dominic Gregory ; Response to Dominic Gregory / Ross P. Cameron.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-967150-8
- 1-282-53476-9
- 9786612534768
- 0-19-157229-2
- OCLC:
- 649831359
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