Modality and Explanatory Reasoning

New York: Oxford University Press (2014)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Boris Kment takes a new approach to the study of modality that emphasises the origin of modal notions in everyday thought. He argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in counterfactual reasoning, which allows us to investigate explanatory connections. Contrary to accepted views, explanation is more fundamental than modality.

Categories

Keywords

Call number

BD218.5.K54 2014

ISBN(s)

9780199604685   9780198803171   0198803176   0199604681   9780191758928

Links

PhilArchive

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

Modality: metaphysics, logic, and epistemology.Bob Hale & Aviv Hoffmann (eds.) - 2010 - qnew York: Oxford University Press.
Logical Necessity.Ian Rumfitt - 2010 - In Bob Hale & Aviv Hoffmann (eds.), Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology. Oxford University Press.
Imagery in multi-modal object learning.Martin Jüttner & Ingo Rentschler - 2002 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (2):197-198.
Concrete possible worlds and counterfactual conditionals: Lewis versus Williamson on modal knowledge.Andrea Sauchelli - 2010 - Synthese 176 (3):345-359.
Studies in the Logic of Explanatory Power.Jonah N. Schupbach - 2011 - Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh
Counterfactuals and the Epistemology of Modality.Thomas Kroedel - 2012 - Philosophers' Imprint 12.
Modal primitivism.Jennifer Wang - 2013 - Dissertation, Rutgers University
God and necessity.Brian Leftow - 2012 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Understanding and Essence.Anand Jayprakash Vaidya - 2010 - Philosophia 38 (4):811-833.
Kant's Modalities of Judgment.Jessica Leech - 2012 - European Journal of Philosophy 20 (2):260-284.
Adaptive logics for non-explanatory and explanatory diagnostic reasoning.Dagmar Provijn & Erik Weber - 2002 - In L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian & C. Pizzi (eds.), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 117--142.
Descartes, conceivability, and logical modality.Lilli Alanen - 1991 - In Tamara Horowitz (ed.), Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield.
Comparing Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Power.Jonah N. Schupbach - 2011 - Philosophy of Science 78 (5):813-829.
Beyond modernity and tradition: A third way for development.Freya Mathews - 2006 - Ethics and the Environment 11 (2):85-113.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-01-20

Downloads
1,175 (#7,858)

6 months
106 (#18,804)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Boris Kment
Princeton University

Citations of this work

Metaphysical grounding.Ricki Bliss & Kelly Trogdon - 2021 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Real Definition.Gideon Rosen - 2015 - Analytic Philosophy 56 (3):189-209.
Modal science.Timothy Williamson - 2016 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (4-5):453-492.
Metaphysical Rationalism.Shamik Dasgupta - 2016 - Noûs 50 (2):379-418.

View all 107 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Writing the Book of the World.Theodore Sider - 2011 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
No Work for a Theory of Grounding.Jessica M. Wilson - 2014 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 57 (5-6):535-579.
On what grounds what.Jonathan Schaffer - 2009 - In David Manley, David J. Chalmers & Ryan Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Oxford University Press. pp. 347-383.
Essence and modality.Kit Fine - 1994 - Philosophical Perspectives 8 (Logic and Language):1-16.

View all 43 references / Add more references