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Modal Epistemology After Rationalism: Synthese Library, cartea 378

Editat de Bob Fischer, Felipe Leon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2016
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319443072
ISBN-10: 3319443070
Pagini: 262
Ilustrații: VI, 308 p. 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Synthese Library

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction to Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (Bob Fischer).- 2. Naturalised Modal Epistemology (Daniel Nolan).- 3. Empirically-Informed Modal Rationalism (Tuomas E. Tahko).- 4. Modal Epistemology Without Detours (Scott A. Shalkowski).- 5. The Epistemology of Modality and the Epistemology of Mathematics (Otávio Bueno).- 6. Modal Knowledge: Beyond Rationalism and Empiricism (Anand Jayprakash Vaidya).- 7. Extending Modal Vision (Rasmussen).- 8. Personal Identity Without Too Much Science Fiction (Peter Kung).- 9. Modal Conventionalism and Textbook Analyticities (Biggs).- 10. Modal Knowledge, Evolution, and Counterfactuals (Thomas Kroedel).- 11. Imagination, Possibility, and Plovers (Hanrahan).- 12. Similarity and Possibility: An Epistemology of De Re Possibility for Concrete Entities (Roca-Royes).- 13. From Modal Skepticism to Modal Empiricism (Felipe Leon).- 14. Modal Empiricism: Objection, Reply, Proposal (Bob Fischer).- 15. Can Modal Skepticism Defeat Humean Skepticism? (Peter Hawke).

Notă biografică

Bob Fischer is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and works on problems in modal epistemology and applied ethics. He is co-editor of The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (Oxford University Press, 2015), editor of College Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016), and author of Modal Justification via Theories (Springer, forthcoming). 
Felipe Leon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at El Camino College. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. He works primarily on issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. His current research focuses on the nature and scope of modal knowledge and its implications for philosophy of religion. His publications include “Why Frankfurt-Examples Don’t Need to Succeed to Succeed” (with Neal Tognazzini. Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 80:3, 20, “Moreland on the Impossibility of Traversing the Infinite: A Critique” (Philo 14:1, 2012), 10), and The Modal-Knowno Problem” (with Robert William Fischer. Southwest Philosophy Review, forthcoming).

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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.

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Represents a broad range of positions on the sources of modal knowledge, highlighting the new trend toward empiricism in modal epistemology Features essays that explore candidate empirical sources and marks the trend toward away from modal rationalism and toward modal empiricism Shows that the basic element in empirical sources of modal knowledge is an inference from the actual to the possible