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Modality
Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology
Edited by Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffmann
384 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-956581-8
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Hardback
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25 March 2010
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- An area of lively current debate
- Impressive international team of contributors
- All essays published here for the first time
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.Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy
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Edited by Bob Hale, University of Sheffield, and Aviv Hoffmann, University of Geneva Contributors:
Ross Cameron, University of Leeds
John Divers, University of Leeds
David Efird, University of York
Kit Fine, New York University
Dominic Gregory, University of Sheffield
Bob Hale, University of Sheffield,
Aviv Hoffmann, University of Geneva
Frank Jackson, Princeton University & La Trobe University
C.S. Jenkins, University of Nottingham
Penelope Mackie, University of Nottingham
Daniel Nolan, University of
Nottingham
Gideon Rosen, Princeton University
Ian Rumfitt, Birkbeck, University of London
Scott Shalkowksi, University of Leeds
Anna Sherratt, formerly University of St Andrews
Robert Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scott Sturgeon, University of Oxford
Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford
Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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"no one with a serious interest in the subject can do without this volume" - John P. Burgess, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffmann: Introduction
Part I: METAPHYSICS and LOGIC
1: Robert Stalnaker: Merely Possible Propositions
Aviv Hoffmann: 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
Daniel Nolan: Response to John Divers
Part II: EPISTEMOLOGY
11: Stephen Yablo: Permission and (So-Called Epistemic) Possibility
David Efird: Response to Stephen Yablo
12: Frank Jackson: Possible Worlds and the Necessary A Posteriori
Penelope Mackie: Response to Frank Jackson
13: Scott Sturgeon: Apriorism about Modality
C.S. Jenkins: Response to Scott Sturgeon
14: Dominic Gregory: Conceivability and Apparent Possibility
Ross Cameron: Response to Dominic Gregory
Bibliography
Index
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