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Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology

Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology

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PhilosophyLogic

ISBN10: 0199565813
ISBN13: 9780199565818
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 20 2010
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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