Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology
1st Edition
Published on 21. March 2023
Book
Hardback
380 pages
978-0-367-43167-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.
The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy.
Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally.
The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy.
Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-43167-9 (9780367431679)
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Persons
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University, USA. His research focuses on epistemology and philosophy of mind. For 25 years he has worked on the epistemology of modality and how it relates to problems in the philosophy of mind, such as the nature of consciousness.
Dusko Prelevic is Associate Professor at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. His research focuses on the epistemology of modality, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. For 13 years he has critically examined various aspects of physicalist research programme and modal rationalist account of our modal knowledge.
Dusko Prelevic is Associate Professor at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. His research focuses on the epistemology of modality, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. For 13 years he has critically examined various aspects of physicalist research programme and modal rationalist account of our modal knowledge.
Content
Introduction Anand Jayprakash Vaidya Summary of Articles Dusko Prelevic 1. Modality, Worlds, Essence, and Modal Knowledge Boris Kment 2. An Agency-Based Epistemology of Modality Barbara Vetter 3. The Price of Sensitivity Rebecca Hanrahan 4. Modal Epistemology for Modalists Otavio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski 5. How (Meta-)Semantics Defuses Modal Pessimism Christian Nimtz 6. How Things Have to Be Nathan Salmon 7. In Search of a Structurally Complete Epistemology of Essence Michael Wallner 8. Morals and Modals: Puzzling about the Dual Use of Modal Verbs Arindam Chakrabarti and Ian Nicolay 9. The Explanatory Power of Modal Rationalism Dusko Prelevic 10. Conceivability: Still Not Enough: A Response to Prelevic Sonia Roca-Royes 11. Reviving the Modal Account of Essence Rebecca Chan 12. A Neo-Aristotelian Reply to a Modalist Sanna Mattila 13. Semantic Rules, Modal Knowledge, and Analyticity Antonella Mallozzi 14. Modal Knowledge and Modal Methodology Theodore Locke and Amie Thomasson 15. Gettier's Thought Experiments Joachim Horvath 16. Horvath on Gettier's Thought Experiments Timothy Williamson 17. Challenges for an Experimentalist's Skepticism about Cases Margot Strohminger and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri 18. In Defense of Modest Modal Skepticism Edouard Machery