Epistemic Modality
Andy Egan, Brian Weatherson
There is a lot that we don't know. That means that there are a lot of possibilities that are, epistemically speaking, open. For instance, we don't know whether it rained in Seattle yesterday. So, for us at least, there is an epistemic possibility where it rained in Seattle yesterday, and one where it did not. What are these epistemic possibilities? They do not match up with metaphysical possibilities - there are various cases where something is epistemically possible but not metaphysically possible, and vice versa. How do we understand the semantics of statements of epistemic modality? The ten new essays in this volume explore various answers to these questions, including those offered by contextualism, relativism, and expressivism.
년:
2011
출판사:
Oxford University Press, USA
언어:
english
페이지:
342
ISBN 10:
0199591598
ISBN 13:
9780199591596
파일:
PDF, 1.17 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011