Williamson on Modality

ISBN-13: 9781138739499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 406 str.

Juhani Yli-Vakkuri; Mark McCullagh

Opis

Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). This book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson's work on metaphysical modality, as well as replies by Williamson to each essay. In addition, it contains an original essay by Williamson, 'Modal science, ' concerning the role of modal claims in natural science. 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.