Epistemic modality
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Epistemic modality
Oxford University Press, 2011
- : pbk
- : hbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- 1. Introduction: Epistemic Modals and Epistemic Modality
- 2. Possibilities for Representation and Credence: Two-Space-ism vs. One-Space-ism
- 3. The Nature of Epistemic Space
- 4. Conditional Propositions and Conditional Assertions
- 5. Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals
- 6. 'Might' Made Right
- 7. Perspectives on Possibilities: Contextualism, Relativism, or What?
- 8. Epistemic Modals are Assessment-Sensitive
- 9. Nonfactualism about Epistemic Modals
- 10. How Not to Theorize about the Language of Subjective Uncertainty
- 11. A Problem about Permission and Possibility
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