196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2001. Modality and Anti-Metaphysics critically examines the most prominent approaches to modality among analytic philosophers in the twentieth century, including essentialism. Defending both the project of metaphysics and the essentialist position that metaphysical modality is conceptually and ontologically primitive, Stephen McLeod argues that the logical... Read more
Contents: The Elimination of Metaphysics: Empiricist anti-metaphysics; Wittgenstein, metaphysics and essentialism; Modal Primitivism: Primitivism, eliminativism and reductionism; Modal epistemology; A defence of modal primitivism; Conclusion; Modal Realism : Anti-realism I: against projectivism; Realism; Anti-realism II: against anti-realist conceptualism; Modality and Anti-Metaphysics: De Re and De Dicto; Empiricism, verifiability, modality; Logical possibility as typically De Dicto; Logical possibility: its nature and value; Closing remark: empiricism and essentialism; Bibliography; Indexes.
Biography
Stephen K. McLeod
’Well-informed, clearly and stylishly written, and including many original insights, McLeod's book makes a significant and valuable contribution to modern analytic metaphysics’. Professor E J Lowe, University of Durham, UK
