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Author | : Phillip Bricker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199676569 |
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Drawing together his work from four decades, Phillip Bricker provides a comprehensive account of modal reality - the realm of possible worlds - from a Humean perspective, with excursions into neighboring topics in metaphysics. Many of the chapters in this volume focus on aspects of David Lewis's metaphysics and his defence of modal realism, sometimes further developing and defending Lewis's views, sometimes deviating from them in substantial ways. The volume is presented in four parts: part one sketches an account of reality as a whole, both the mathematical and the modal, defending a form of plenitudinous realism; part two presents and defends a realist theory of concrete possible worlds with an absolute ontological distinction between the actual and the merely possible; part three presents and defends a Humean account of modal plenitude, formulating and endorsing principles that guarantee a plenitude of recombination, of possible structures, and of alien contents; and part four applies the Humean account to truthmaking, mereology, spacetime, and quantities. An uncompromising Humean, Bricker shows that holding fast to Humean strictures leads to views that differ in radical ways from those prevalent among contemporary metaphysicians.
Author | : Bob Fischer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 331949127X |
Download Modal Justification via Theories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM). According to TEM, someone justifiably believe an interesting modal claim if and only if (a) she justifiably believes a theory according to which that claim is true, (b) she believes that claim on the basis of that theory, and (c) she has no defeaters for her belief in that claim. The book has two parts. In the first, the author motivates TEM, sets out the view in detail, and defends it against a number of objections. In the second, the author considers whether TEM is worth accepting. To argue that it is, the author sets out criteria for choosing between modal epistemologies, concluding that TEM has a number of important virtues. However, the author also concedes that TEM is cautious: it probably implies that we are not justified in believing some interesting modal claims that we might take ourselves to be justified in believing. This raises a question about TEM's relationship to Peter van Inwagen's modal skepticism, which the author explores in detail. As it turns out, TEM offers a better route to modal skepticism than the one that van Inwagen provides. But rather than being a liability, the author argues that this is a further advantage of the view. Moreover, he argues that other popular modal epistemologies do not fare better: they cannot easily secure more extensive modal justification than TEM. The book concludes by clarifying TEM’s relationship to the other modal epistemologies on offer, contending that TEM need not be a rival to those views, but can instead be a supplement to them.
Author | : Bob Fischer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-11-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319443097 |
Download Modal Epistemology After Rationalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, essence-based approaches to modal knowledge, and the prospects for naturalizing modal epistemology. The middle chapters present positive accounts that reject rationalism, but which stop short of advocating exclusive appeal to empirical sources of modal knowledge. The final chapters mark a transition toward exclusive reliance on empirical sources of modal knowledge. They explore ways of making similarity-based, analogical, inductive, and abductive arguments for modal claims based on empirical information. Modal epistemology is coming into its own as a field, and this book has the potential to anchor a new research agenda.
Author | : Henrik Lagerlund |
Publisher | : Uppsala Universitet |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Logic |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Anand Jayprakash Vaidya |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2023-03-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000840433 |
Download Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy. Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally.
Author | : Timothy Williamson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019955207X |
Download Modal Logic as Metaphysics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resources of quantified modal logic. Contrary to the widespread assumption that logic and metaphysics are disjoint, he argues that modal logic provides a structural core for metaphysics.
Author | : Timothy Williamson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191057401 |
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Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the basis of an integrated approach to the issues, applying the technical resources of modal logic to provide structural cores for metaphysical theories. He rejects the search for a metaphysically neutral logic as futile. The book contains detailed historical discussion of how the metaphysical issues emerged in the twentieth century development of quantified modal logic, through the work of such figures as Rudolf Carnap, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Arthur Prior, and Saul Kripke. It proposes higher-order modal logic as a new setting in which to resolve such metaphysical questions scientifically, by the construction of systematic logical theories embodying rival answers and their comparison by normal scientific standards. Williamson provides both a rigorous introduction to the technical background needed to understand metaphysical questions in quantified modal logic and an extended argument for controversial, provocative answers to them. He gives original, precise treatments of topics including the relation between logic and metaphysics, the methodology of theory choice in philosophy, the nature of possible worlds and their role in semantics, plural quantification compared to quantification into predicate position, communication across metaphysical disagreement, and problems for truthmaker theory.
Author | : Evan Goris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789039336977 |
Download Modal Matters in Interpretability Logics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mircea Dumitru |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199652627 |
Download Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book on the provocative and innovative contributions to philosophy of language, metaphysics, the philosophy of mathematics, and logic made by Kit Fine, one of the world's foremost philosophers. Topics covered include meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality.
Author | : Irene Binini |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004470468 |
Download Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a major reassessment of Abelard’s modal logic and theory of modalities, and provides a comprehensive study of the 12th-century context in which his views originated and developed, by analysing many logical sources that are still unedited and mostly unexplored.