Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199565813 ISBN 13 : 9780199565818

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions--are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the papers address fundamental questions concerning realism and anti-realism about modality, the nature and basis of facts about what is possible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence and to counterfactual reasoning. The general introduction locates the individual contributions in the wider context of the contemporary discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of modality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bob Hale is a professor of philosophy at Sheffield University. He was a British Academy Research Reader (1997-99), and will be a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (2009-11). He previously taught at the universities of Glasgow, St.Andrews, and Lancaster. He works mainly on the philosophy of mathematics and philosophical logic.

Aviv Hoffmann is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University of Israel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199565813
• ISBN 13: 9780199565818
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 370
• Éditeur: Hale Bob, Hoffmann Aviv
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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