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This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.
Sommario
Introduction
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya Summary of Articles
Duško Prelevi¿ 1. Modality, Worlds, Essence, and Modal Knowledge
Boris Kment 2. An Agency-Based Epistemology of Modality
Barbara Vetter 3. The Price of Sensitivity
Rebecca Hanrahan 4. Modal Epistemology for Modalists
Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski 5. How (Meta-)Semantics Defuses Modal Pessimism
Christian Nimtz 6. How Things Have to Be
Nathan Salmon 7. In Search of a Structurally Complete Epistemology of Essence
Michael Wallner 8. Morals and Modals: Puzzling about the Dual Use of Modal Verbs
Arindam Chakrabarti and Ian Nicolay 9. The Explanatory Power of Modal Rationalism
Duško Prelevi¿ 10. Conceivability: Still Not Enough: A Response to Prelevi¿
Sonia Roca-Royes 11. Reviving the Modal Account of Essence
Rebecca Chan 12. A Neo-Aristotelian Reply to a Modalist
Sanna Mattila 13. Semantic Rules, Modal Knowledge, and Analyticity
Antonella Mallozzi 14. Modal Knowledge and Modal Methodology
Theodore Locke and Amie Thomasson 15. Gettier's Thought Experiments
Joachim Horvath 16. Horvath on Gettier's Thought Experiments
Timothy Williamson 17. Challenges for an Experimentalist's Skepticism about Cases
Margot Strohminger and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri 18. In Defense of Modest Modal Skepticism
Edouard Machery
Info autore
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University, USA. His research focuses on epistemology and philosophy of mind. For 25 years he has worked on the epistemology of modality and how it relates to problems in the philosophy of mind, such as the nature of consciousness.
Duško Prelevi¿ is Associate Professor at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. His research focuses on the epistemology of modality, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. For 13 years he has critically examined various aspects of physicalist research programme and modal rationalist account of our modal knowledge.
Riassunto
This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.
