Essence and modal knowledge

DOI10.1007/S11229-018-01903-1MaRDI QIDQ2695046zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Boris Kment

Publication date 30 March 2023

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01903-1

zbMATH Keywords

causationconceivabilityconceptscounterfactualsessenceessentialismgroundingKripkemetaphysical explanationmetaphysical lawsmodalitynecessitypossibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45)

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• Knowing how things might have been
• New frontiers in ground, essence, and modality: introduction
• Against the reduction of modality to essence
• On modal knowledge
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• Locke and the problem of necessity in early modern philosophy
• Grounding generalizations
• Modal inferences in science: a tale of two epistemologies
• Topic theoretic invariantism
• Laws, initial conditions and physical modality: lessons from cosmology

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