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Zusatztext Modality is a fine collection that will have wide appeal. Its chief value is in the sceptical reflections on modality to which it will prompt many readers. Informationen zum Autor Bob Hale is a professor of philosophy at Sheffield University. He was a British Academy Research Reader (1997-99), and will be a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (2009-11). He previously taught at the universities of Glasgow, St.Andrews, and Lancaster. He works mainly on the philosophy of mathematics and philosophical logic.Aviv Hoffmann is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University of Israel. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 collection comprises essays on these and other questions by an excellent team of contributors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: METAPHYSICS and LOGIC 1: Robert Stalnaker: Merely Possible Propositions 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 Response to John Divers Part II: EPISTEMOLOGY 11: Stephen Yablo: Permission and (So-Called Epistemic) Possibility Response to Stephen Yablo 12: Frank Jackson: Possible Worlds and the Necessary A Posteriori Response to Frank Jackson 13: Scott Sturgeon: Apriorism about Modality Response to Scott Sturgeon 14: Dominic Gregory: Conceivability and Apparent Possibility Response to Dominic Gregory Bibliography Index ...
