| Description |
1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Epistemology Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Epistemology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Central Questions -- Summary of Articles -- 1 Modality, Worlds, Essence, and Modal Knowledge -- Necessity, Possible Worlds, Essence, and Counterfactuals -- A Theory of Necessity -- Metaphysical Laws, Grounding, and Causal Explanation -- Modal Knowledge -- 2 An Agency-Based Epistemology of Modality -- Introduction -- Modality in Action -- Toward Mere Possibility -- Modality Beyond Action -- Modality in Philosophy -- 3 The Price of Sensitivity -- Jenkins on Concepts |
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Churches and Q-Churches -- Collapsing Possibilities -- Accepting Insensitivity -- Conclusion -- 4 Modal Epistemology for Modalists -- Introduction -- Modal Rationalism: Intuitions -- Modalism and Modal Epistemology -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 5 How (Meta-)Semantics Defuses Modal Pessimism -- Introduction: Modal Pessimism and Why We Should Care -- Modal Pessimism and the Argument from Autonomy -- Modal Knowledge from Science and Semantics I: Identities -- Paradigm Terms Semantics -- From Paradigm Terms to Proto-Necessities -- Modal Knowledge from Science and Semantics II: Beyond Identities |
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Conclusions and Objections -- 6 How Things Have to Be -- Putnam on Natural-Kind Terms -- Non-Rigid General Terms -- Modal-Essentialism in the Putnam Theory -- Reconfiguring the Putnam Program -- The Failure of the Reconfigured Putnam Program -- 7 In Search of a Structurally Complete Epistemology of Essence -- Introduction -- Lowe's Epistemology of Essence -- Hale's Epistemology of Essence -- The Road Map -- Husserl's Epistemology of Essence -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 8 Morals and Modals: Puzzling about the Dual Use of Modal Verbs |
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Exegetical Reconstruction of Prelević's Rescuing Strategy -- Still Unexplained Friction -- 11 Reviving the Modal Account of Essence -- Introduction -- Two Conceptions of Essence -- The (Alleged) Virtues of Definition -- The Revised Modal Account -- Two Theoretical Advantages -- Concluding Thoughts -- 12 A Neo-Aristotelian Reply to A Modalist -- Introduction -- The Neo-Aristotelian Account -- The Determinacy Modification and the Need to Individuate -- The Sparseness Modification and Borderline Cases -- Conclusion -- 13 Semantic Rules, Modal Knowledge, and Analyticity -- Introduction |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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What Is Modal Normativism? |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Prelević, Dusko
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| ISBN |
9781000840445 |
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1000840441 |
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