The Routledge handbook of modality / edited by Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bueno, Otávio, editor.

Shalkowski, Scott A., editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks in philosophy

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modality (Logic).

Modality (Theory of knowledge).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 415 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Otv̀io Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami, USA. He is co-author of Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation (2018), and editor in chief of Synthese and of the Synthese Library book series. Scott A. Shalkowski is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK. With Otv̀io Bueno he is an author of the forthcoming Routledge book Epistemology of Modality.

Summary:

"Modality - the question of what is possible and what is necessary - is a fundamental area of philosophy and philosophical research. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven clear parts: worlds and modality; essentialism, ontological dependence, and modality; modal anti-realism; epistemology of modality; modality in science; modality in logic and mathematics; modality in the history of philosophy. Within these sections the central issues, debates and problems are examined, including possible worlds, essentialism, counterfactuals, ontological dependence, modal fictionalism, deflationism, the integration challenge, conceivability, a priori knowledge, laws of nature, natural kinds, and logical necessity. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. It will also be very useful for those in related fields in philosophy such as philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Modal matters : philosophical significance / Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski

Possible worlds / Michael De

Actualism / Karen Bennett

Counterfactual conditionals / Dorothy Edgington

Impossibility and impossible worlds / Daniel Nolan

Origins of logical space / Brian Leftow

Essentialism and modality / Penelope Mackie

De re modality / Boris Kment

Relativized metaphysical modality : index and context / Benj Hellie, Adam Russell Murray, and Jessica Wilson

Ontological dependence, grounding, and modality / Fabrice Correia

Modalism / Scott A. Shalkowski

Modal anti-realism / John Divers

Modal conventionalism / Ross Cameron

Norms and modality / Amie Thomasson

The integration challenge / Sonia Roca-Royes

The epistemic idleness of conceivability / M. Oreste Fiocco

Epistemology, the constitutive, and the principle-based account of modality / Christopher Peacocke

Counterfactual-based approach / Tim Williamson

Modality and a priori knowledge / Albert Casullo

Intuition and modality : a disjunctive-social account of intuition-based justification in the epistemology of modality / Anand Vaidya

Modality and scientific structuralism / Steven French

Laws of nature, natural necessity, and counterfactual conditionals / Marc Lange

Natural kinds and modality / Alexander Bird

Modality in physics / Samuel C. Fletcher

Physical and metaphysical modality / Ned Hall

Modality in mathematics / Øystein Linnebo and Stewart Shapiro

Modal set theory / Christopher Menzel

The logic of metaphysical modality / Bob Hale

Modality and the plurality of logics / Otávio Bueno

Ancient Greek modal logic / Robin Smith

Modality in medieval philosophy / Stephen Read

Modality in Descartes's philosophy / Alan Nelson

Hume on modality / Peter Millican

Kant on real possibility / Nick Stang

Quine on modality / Roberta Ballarin

Kripke on modality / John Burgess.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 19, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: The Routledge handbook of modality

ISBN:

9781315742144

1315742144

9781317585268

1317585267

9781317585282

1317585283

9781317585275

1317585275

OCLC:

1200831453

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