Williamson on Modality

Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Mark McCullagh, Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Mark McCullagh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781351730044
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). This book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson's work on metaphysical modality, as well as replies by Williamson to each essay. In addition, it contains an original essay by Williamson, 'Modal science,' concerning the role of modal claims in natural science. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Modal science
• 2 Higher-order free logic and the Prior-Kaplan paradox
• Reply to Bacon, Hawthorne and Uzquiano
• 3 Williamson on Fine on Prior on the reduction of possibilist discourse
• Reply to Fine
• 4 First-order modal logic in the necessary framework of objects
• Reply to Fritz
• 5 Williamson on necessitism
• Reply to Goodman
• 6 Plurals and modals
• Reply to Linnebo
• 7 On Williamson and simplicity in modal logic
• Reply to Sider
• 8 Models and reality
• Reply to Stalnaker
• 9 An A-theory without tense operators
• Reply to Sullivan
• 10 Williamsonian modal epistemology, possibility-based
• Reply to Vetter
• 11 Epistemicism and modality
• Appendix to Juhani Yli-Vakkuri’s ‘Epistemicism and modality’
• Reply to Yli-Vakkuri
• Index