Remarks on our knowledge of modal facts

Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 43 (1):54--60 (2008)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Can we have a posteriori knowledge of modal facts? And if so, is that knowledge fundamentally a posteriori, or does a priori intuition provide the modal component of what is known? Though the latter view seems more straightforward, there are also reasons for taking the first option seriously.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.18261/issn1504-2901-2008-01-05

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,386

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Explaining modal intuition.Nenad Miščević - 2003 - Acta Analytica 18 (1-2):5-41.
Epistemological physicalism and the knowledge argument.Jesper Kallestrup - 2006 - American Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1):1-23.
Modal epistemology: Our knowledge of necessity and possibility.Simon Evnine - 2008 - Philosophy Compass 3 (4):664-684.
Modal Knowledge and Counterfactual Knowledge.Sonia Roca-Royes - 2011 - Logique Et Analyse 54 (216):537-552.
Defending coincidence: An explanation of a sort.Mark Moyer - unknown
What one may come to know.van Benthem Johan - 2004 - Analysis 64 (2):95–105.
Particularism and the contingent a priori.Sean D. McKeever & Michael Ridge - 2006 - Acta Analytica 21 (2):3-11.
Conceivability and De Re Modal Knowledge.Sonia Roca-Royes - 2011 - Noûs 45 (1):22-49.
Scepticism, context and modal reasoning.Andrej Ule - 2004 - Acta Analytica 19 (33):9-30.
A New Definition of A Priori Knowledge: In Search of a Modal Basis.Tuomas E. Tahko - 2008 - Metaphysica 9 (2):57-68.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
116 (#150,511)

6 months
6 (#504,917)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Alexander James Bird
Cambridge University

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references