Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199671508 ISBN 13: 9780199671502

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199671508
• ISBN 13: 9780199671502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370
• Editor: Hale Bob, Hoffmann Aviv