Concrete possible worlds and counterfactual conditionals: Lewis versus Williamson on modal knowledge
Synthese 176 (3):345-359 (2010)
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The epistemology of modality is gradually coming to play a central role in general discussions about modality. This paper is a contribution in this direction, in particular I draw a comparison between Lewis’s Modal realism and Timothy Williamson’s recent account of modality in terms of counterfactual thinking. In order to have criteria of evaluation, I also formulate four requirements which are supposed to be met by any theory of modality to be epistemologically adequate.
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Keywords | Modal epistemology Counterfactual thinking Possible worlds Modality |
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DOI | 10.1007/s11229-009-9571-3 |
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