Epistemology of modality and philosophical methodology

• Titel: Epistemology of modality and philosophical methodology
• Mitwirkende: Vaidya, Anand [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Prelević, Duško [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Anand Jayprakash Vaidya and Duško Prelević
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xi, 379 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge studies in epistemology
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-367-43167-9
• ISBN: 0-367-43167-X
• ISBN: 978-1-032-42596-2
• Schlagwörter: (s)Modalität / (s)Erkenntnistheorie / (s)Metaphysik / (s)Methodologie
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Epistemology of modality and philosophical methodology. - Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. - 1 online resource (xi, 379 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: CC 6000
• RVK-Notation: CC 4400
• Sach-SW: Modality (Logic)
• Sach-SW: Modality (Theory of knowledge)
• K10plus-PPN: 1847543030

Abstract

"This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy. The Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally"--