Modal Naturalism : Science and the Modal Facts
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
100935163X
ISBN-13
9781009351638
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 19th, 2024
Print length
86 Pages
Weight
144 grams
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15.20 x 22.90 x 0.70 cms
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Philosophy
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The epistemology of modal facts has been a topic of uncertainty and disagreement, with recent literature dominated by rationalist approaches. This Element aims to develop a new approach central to scientific investigation, focusing on modal naturalism, which views science as the primary source of evidence concerning modal facts.
How do we know what is possible or impossible, what is inevitable or unattainable, or what would happen under which circumstances? Since modal facts seem distinctively mysterious and difficult to know, the epistemology of modality has historically been fraught with uncertainty and disagreement. The recent literature has been dominated by rationalist approaches that emphasise a priori reasoning (sometimes including direct intuition of possibility). Only recently have alternative approaches emerged which recognize a broader range of sources of modal knowledge. Yet even emerging non-rationalist views have tended to assign scientific investigation at best a supporting role. Our project in this book is to develop and defend a new approach to the epistemology of modal facts which assigns a central role to scientific investigation. According to modal naturalism, science (construed broadly) is our primary source of evidence concerning the modal facts.
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