The Routledge Handbook of Modality (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bueno, Otávio; Shalkowski, Scott A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Modality - the question of what is possible and what is necessary - is a fundamental area of philosophy and philosophical research. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven clear parts:

• worlds and modality
• essentialism, ontological dependence, and modality
• modal anti-realism
• epistemology of modality
• modality in science
• modality in logic and mathematics
• modality in the history of philosophy.

Within these sections the central issues, debates and problems are examined, including possible worlds, essentialism, counterfactuals, ontological dependence, modal fictionalism, deflationism, the integration challenge, conceivability, a priori knowledge, laws of nature, natural kinds, and logical necessity.

The Routledge Handbook of Modality is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. It will also be very useful for those in related fields in philosophy such as philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317585282
• Artikelnr.: 60723736

Autorenporträt

Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami, USA. He is co-author of Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation (2018), and editor in chief of Synthese and of the Synthese Library book series. Scott A. Shalkowski is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK. With Otávio Bueno he is an author of the forthcoming Routledge book Epistemology of Modality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction .Modal Matters: Philosophical Significance Otávio Bueno and
Scott A. Shalkowski Part 1: Worlds and Modality 1. Possible Worlds Michael
De 2. Actualism Karen Bennett 3. Counterfactual Conditionals Dorothy
Edgington 4. Impossibility and Impossible Worlds Daniel Nolan 5. Origins of
Logical Space Brian Leftow Part 2: Essentialism, Ontological Dependence,
and Modality 6. Essentialism and Modality Penelope Mackie 7. De Re
Modality Boris Kment 8. Relativized Metaphysical Modality: Index and
Context Benj Hellie, Adam Russell Murray, and Jessica Wilson 9. Ontological
Dependence, Grounding, and Modality Fabrice Correia 10. Modalism Scott A.
Shalkowski Part 3: Modal Anti-Realism 11. Modal Anti-Realism John Divers
12. Modal Conventionalism Ross Cameron 13. Norms and Modality Amie
Thomasson Part 4: Epistemology of Modality 14. The Integration Challenge
Sonia Roca-Royes 15. The Epistemic Idleness of Conceivability M. Oreste
Fiocco 16. Epistemology, the Constitutive, and the Principle-Based Account
of Modality Christopher Peacocke 17. Counterfactual-Based Approach Tim
Williamson 18. Modality and A priori Knowledge Albert Casullo 19. Intuition
and Modality: A Disjunctive-Social Account of Intuition-Based Justification
in the Epistemology of Modality Anand Vaidya Part 5: Modality and the
Metaphysics of Science 20. Modality and Scientific Structuralism Steven
French 21. Laws of Nature, Natural Necessity, and Counterfactual
Conditionals Marc Lange 22. Natural Kinds and Modality Alexander Bird 23.
Modality in Physics Samuel C. Fletcher 24. Physical and Metaphysical
Modality Ned Hall Part 6: Modality in Logic and Mathematics 25. Modality in
Mathematics Øystein Linnebo and Stewart Shapiro 26. Modal Set Theory
Christopher Menzel 27. The Logic of Metaphysical Modality Bob Hale 28.
Modality and the Plurality of Logics Otávio Bueno Part 7: Modality in the
History of Philosophy 29. Ancient Greek Modal Logic Robin Smith 30.
Modality in Medieval Philosophy Stephen Read 31. Modality in Descartes's
Philosophy Alan Nelson 32. Hume on Modality Peter Millican 33. Kant on Real
Possibility Nick Stang 34. Quine on Modality Roberta Ballarin 35. Kripke on
Modality John Burgess. Index