Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to ...