I argue that a pragmatic scepticism about metaphysical modality is a perfectly reasonable position to maintain. I then illustrate the difficulties and limitations associated with some strategies for defeating such scepticism. These strategies appeal to associations between metaphysical modality and the following: objective probability, counterfactuals and distinctive explanatory value
Abstract Timothy Williamson has recently proposed to undermine modal skepticism by appealing to th...
This paper examines "moderate modal skepticism", a form of skepticism about metaphysical m...
What is our epistemic access to metaphysical modality? Timothy Williamson suggests that the epistemo...
Too often, philosophers have discussed ‘metaphysical ’ modality — possibility, contingency, necessit...
This chapter examines moderate modal skepticism, a form of skepticism about metaphysical modality de...
It is widely agreed that the intelligibility of modal metaphysics has been vindicated. Quine's argum...
Modal agnosticism is the view that we must be agnostic about whether things could have turned out di...
The epistemology of modality has focused on metaphysical modality and, more recently, coun...
The paper provides an explanation of our knowledge of metaphysical modality, or modal knowledge, fro...
Assertions about metaphysical modality (hereafter modality) play central roles in philosophical theo...
I compare two prominent approaches to knowledge of metaphysical modality, the more traditional appro...
In this dissertation, I develop an account of non-vacuous counterpossibles—counterfactuals involving...
The epistemology of modality has focused on metaphysical modality and, more recently, counterfactual...
This thesis offers an answer to the following question and discusses how that answer relates to cert...
This paper explains and defends the idea that metaphysical necessity is the strongest kind of object...
Abstract Timothy Williamson has recently proposed to undermine modal skepticism by appealing to th...
This paper examines "moderate modal skepticism", a form of skepticism about metaphysical m...
What is our epistemic access to metaphysical modality? Timothy Williamson suggests that the epistemo...
Too often, philosophers have discussed ‘metaphysical ’ modality — possibility, contingency, necessit...
This chapter examines moderate modal skepticism, a form of skepticism about metaphysical modality de...
It is widely agreed that the intelligibility of modal metaphysics has been vindicated. Quine's argum...
Modal agnosticism is the view that we must be agnostic about whether things could have turned out di...
The epistemology of modality has focused on metaphysical modality and, more recently, coun...
The paper provides an explanation of our knowledge of metaphysical modality, or modal knowledge, fro...
Assertions about metaphysical modality (hereafter modality) play central roles in philosophical theo...
I compare two prominent approaches to knowledge of metaphysical modality, the more traditional appro...
In this dissertation, I develop an account of non-vacuous counterpossibles—counterfactuals involving...
The epistemology of modality has focused on metaphysical modality and, more recently, counterfactual...
This thesis offers an answer to the following question and discusses how that answer relates to cert...
This paper explains and defends the idea that metaphysical necessity is the strongest kind of object...
Abstract Timothy Williamson has recently proposed to undermine modal skepticism by appealing to th...
This paper examines "moderate modal skepticism", a form of skepticism about metaphysical m...
What is our epistemic access to metaphysical modality? Timothy Williamson suggests that the epistemo...
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