The Routledge Handbook of Modality

<p>Modality - the question of what is possible and what is necessary - is a fundamental area of philosophy and philosophical research. <i>The Routledge Handbook of Modality </i>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 divided into seven clear parts:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>worlds and modality</li> <li>essentialism, ontological dependence, and modality</li> <li>modal anti-realism </li> <li>epistemology of modality</li> <li>modality in science </li> <li>modality in logic and mathematics </li> <li>modality in the history of philosophy. </li> </ul><p>Within these sections the central issues, debates and problems are examined, including possible worlds, essentialism, counterfactuals, ontological dependence, modal fictionalism, deflationism, the integration challenge, conceivability, <i>a priori</i> knowledge, laws of nature, natural kinds, and logical necessity.</p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Modality is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. It will also be very useful for those in related fields in philosophy such as philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science.</p> <p>Introduction .Modal Matters: Philosophical Significance <i>Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski </i><b>Part 1: Worlds and Modality </b>1. Possible Worlds <i>Michael De</i> 2. Actualism <i>Karen Bennett </i>3. Counterfactual Conditionals <i>Dorothy Edgington</i> 4. Impossibility and Impossible Worlds <i>Daniel Nolan</i> 5. Origins of Logical Space <i>Brian Leftow</i> <b>Part 2: Essentialism, Ontological Dependence, and Modality </b>6. Essentialism and Modality <i>Penelope Mackie</i> 7. <i>De Re</i> Modality <i>Boris Kment </i>8. Relativized Metaphysical Modality: Index and Context <i>Benj Hellie, Adam Russell Murray</i>, and <i>Jessica Wilson</i> 9. Ontological Dependence, Grounding, and Modality <i>Fabrice Correia </i>10. Modalism <i>Scott A. Shalkowski </i><b>Part 3: Modal Anti-Realism </b>11. Modal Anti-Realism <i>John Divers</i> 12. Modal Conventionalism <i>Ross Cameron</i> 13. Norms and Modality <i>Amie Thomasson</i> <b>Part 4: Epistemology of Modality </b>14. The Integration Challenge <i>Sonia Roca-Royes</i> 15. The Epistemic Idleness of Conceivability <i>M. Oreste Fiocco</i> 16. Epistemology, the Constitutive, and the Principle-Based Account of Modality <i>Christopher Peacocke</i> 17. Counterfactual-Based Approach <i>Tim Williamson</i> 18. Modality and A priori Knowledge <i>Albert Casullo</i> 19. Intuition and Modality: A Disjunctive-Social Account of Intuition-Based Justification in the Epistemology of Modality <i>Anand Vaidya </i><b>Part 5: Modality and the Metaphysics of Science </b>20. Modality and Scientific Structuralism <i>Steven French </i>21. Laws of Nature, Natural Necessity, and Counterfactual Conditionals <i>Marc Lange</i> 22. Natural Kinds and Modality <i>Alexander Bird</i> 23. Modality in Physics <i>Samuel C. Fletcher</i> 24. Physical and Metaphysical Modality <i>Ned Hall</i> <b>Part 6: Modality in Logic and Mathematics </b>25. Modality in Mathematics <i>Øystein Linnebo</i> and <i>Stewart Shapiro</i> 26. Modal Set Theory <i>Christopher Menzel</i> 27. The Logic of Metaphysical Modality <i>Bob Hale</i> 28. Modality and the Plurality of Logics <i>Otávio Bueno </i><b>Part 7: Modality in the History of Philosophy </b>29. Ancient Greek Modal Logic <i>Robin Smith</i> 30. Modality in Medieval Philosophy <i>Stephen Read</i> 31. Modality in Descartes’s Philosophy <i>Alan Nelson</i> 32. Hume on Modality <i>Peter Millican</i> 33. Kant on Real Possibility <i>Nick Stang</i> 34. Quine on Modality <i>Roberta Ballarin</i> 35. Kripke on Modality <i>John Burgess</i>. <i>Index</i></p>