Williamson on Modality

ISBN-13: 9780367229887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 406 str.

Juhani Yli-Vakkuri; Mark McCullagh

Opis

The present book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Timothy Williamson’s work on metaphysical modality. Each essay is followed by a reply by Williamson. In addition, the book contains a new essay by Williamson. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Spis treści

1. Modal science  2. Higher-order free logic and the Prior-Kaplan paradox  Reply to Bacon, Hawthorne and Uzquiano  3. Williamson on Fine on Prior on the reduction of possibilist discourse  Reply to Fine  4. First-order modal logic in the necessary framework of objects  Reply to Fritz  5. Williamson on necessitism  Reply to Goodman  6. Plurals and modals  Reply to Linnebo  7. On Williamson and simplicity in modal logic  Reply to Sider  8. Models and reality  Reply to Stalnaker  9. An A-theory without tense operators  Reply to Sullivan  10. Williamsonian modal epistemology, possibility-based  Reply to Vetter  11. Epistemicism and modality  Appendix to Juhani Yli-Vakkuri’s ‘Epistemicism and Modality’  Reply to Yli-Vakkuri

O autorze

Juhani Yli-Vakkuri is a Research Affiliate in Philosophy at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Norway.

Mark McCullagh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Canada.