This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief
Modal Epistemology After Rationalism
โ Scribed by Bob Fischer, Felipe Leon (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 306
- Series
- Synthese Library 378
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, essence-based approaches to modal knowledge, and the prospects for naturalizing modal epistemology. The middle chapters present positive accounts that reject rationalism, but which stop short of advocating exclusive appeal to empirical sources of modal knowledge. The final chapters mark a transition toward exclusive reliance on empirical sources of modal knowledge. They explore ways of making similarity-based, analogical, inductive, and abductive arguments for modal claims based on empirical information. Modal epistemology is coming into its own as a field, and this book has the potential to anchor a new research agenda.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction to Modal Epistemology After Rationalism ....Pages 1-6
Naturalised Modal Epistemology....Pages 7-27
Empirically-Informed Modal Rationalism....Pages 29-45
Modal Epistemology Without Detours....Pages 47-66
The Epistemology of Modality and the Epistemology of Mathematics....Pages 67-83
Modal Knowledge: Beyond Rationalism and Empiricism....Pages 85-114
Extending Modal Vision....Pages 115-132
Personal Identity Without Too Much Science Fiction....Pages 133-154
Modal Conventionalism and Textbook Analyticities....Pages 155-177
Modal Knowledge, Evolution, and Counterfactuals....Pages 179-195
Imagination, Possibility, and Plovers....Pages 197-219
Similarity and Possibility: An Epistemology of de re Possibility for Concrete Entities....Pages 221-245
From Modal Skepticism to Modal Empiricism....Pages 247-261
Modal Empiricism: Objection, Reply, Proposal....Pages 263-279
Can Modal Skepticism Defeat Humean Skepticism?....Pages 281-308
โฆ Subjects
Epistemology;Metaphysics
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