The Epistemology of Modality

Margot Strohminger & Juhani Yli-Vakkuri

Analysis 77 (4):825-838 (2017)

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Abstract

This article surveys recent developments in the epistemology of modality.

Keywords

epistemology of modality modality conceivability counterfactuals a priori knowledge philosophical methodology

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Conceivability, Imagination, and Possibility in Metaphysics

Counterfactuals and Modal Epistemology in Metaphysics

Modal Intuition in Metaphysics

Modal Rationalism in Metaphysics

Modal Skepticism in Metaphysics

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2017

DOI

10.1093/analys/anx058

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STRTEO-35

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Modal Logic as Metaphysics.Williamson, Timothy

Nature’s Metaphysics.Bird, Alexander

Writing the Book of the World.Sider, Theodore

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.Chalmers, David J.

The Philosophy of Philosophy.Williamson, Timothy

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Knowledge of Objective Modality.Strohminger, Margot & Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani

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The Necessity of Mathematics.Yli‐Vakkuri, Juhani & Hawthorne, John

Knowing How Things Might Have Been.Jago, Mark

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