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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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2023

ISBN

9781000840445

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Epistemology in Philosophy

Cover
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction
Summary of Articles
1 Modality, Worlds, Essence, and Modal Knowledge
2 An Agency-Based Epistemology of Modality
3 The Price of Sensitivity
4 Modal Epistemology for Modalists
5 How (Meta-)Semantics Defuses Modal Pessimism
6 How Things Have to Be
7 In Search of a Structurally Complete Epistemology of Essence
8 Morals and Modals: Puzzling about the Dual Use of Modal Verbs
9 The Explanatory Power of Modal Rationalism
10 Conceivability: Still Not Enough: A Response to Prelević
11 Reviving the Modal Account of Essence
12 A Neo-Aristotelian Reply to A Modalist
13 Semantic Rules, Modal Knowledge, and Analyticity
14 Modal Knowledge and Modal Methodology
15 Gettier’s Thought Experiments
16 Horvath on Gettier’s Thought Experiments
17 Challenges for an Experimentalist’s Skepticism about Cases
18 In Defense of Modest Modal Skepticism
Notes on Contributors
Index