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The Routledge Handbook of Modality book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Modality

Edited By Otávio Bueno, Scott A. Shalkowski Copyright 2021
432 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

432 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

432 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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