Epistemic modality

by Egan, Andy Weatherson, Brian

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Title Statements

Full title :Epistemic modality / edited by Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson.

Summary

"There is a lot 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."--Page 4 of cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:335 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199591589, 019959158X, 9780199591596, 0199591598
oclc:ocn687683175
LC Classification:BD161
Dewey Decimal:415

Subjects

08.34 philosophy of language Epistemic logic epistemology Erkenntnistheorie Knowledge, Theory of Kontext (språkvetenskap) Modalität Modalité (Logique) Modalitet (språkvetenskap) Modalitity Modality (Logic) Possibilitätstheorie Théorie de la connaissance