Modal Naturalism by Amanda Bryant
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.-
The Methodology of Metaphysics
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The Metaphysics of Logic
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Metaphysics of Causation
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Metaphysics and the Sciences
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Metaphysics of Race
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Abstract Objects
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Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations
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The Metaphysics of Gender
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Relations
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Persistence
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Properties
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Substance
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Chemistry's Metaphysics
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The Metaphysics of Color
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Social Ontology
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Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics
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Metaontology
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Reduction, Emergence and the Metaphysics in Science
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Indeterminacy in the World
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Ontological Categories
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Dispositions and Powers
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Teleology
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Identity
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Truthmaking
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Formal Ontology
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Parts and Wholes
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Laws of Nature
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Material Objects
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Essence
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Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism
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Time
Alastair Wilson, University of Birmingham Alastair Wilson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. He was President of the Society for Metaphysics of Science in 2017-18, Honorary Secretary of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science in 2018-19, and is
currently leading FraMEPhys, a five-year project on metaphysical explanation in physics funded by the European Research Council. He works in the emerging subfield of metaphysics of science, a branch of philosophy which draws on contemporary scientific discoveries to help answer ancient questions
about the underlying nature of reality.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009462563 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009462563 |
| Title | Modal Naturalism |
| Author | Amanda Bryant |
| Series | Elements In Metaphysics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2024-12-19 |
| Number of pages | 86 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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