Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology - Hardcover

 
9780199565818: Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology
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ISBN 10: 0199565813 ISBN 13: 9780199565818
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Bob Hale is Professor of Philosophy at Sheffield University. He has been a British Academy Research Reader (1997-99), and a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (2009-11). He previously taught at the University of Glasgow, the University of St. Andrews, and Lancaster University. He works mainly on the philosophy of mathematics and philosophical logic.

Aviv Hoffmann is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University of Israel.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199565813
ISBN 13 
9780199565818
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
370
Editor
Hale Bob, Hoffmann Aviv

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