The Routledge Handbook of Modality

ISBN-13: 9780367689544 / Angielski

Otávio Bueno; Scott A. Shalkowski

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.