Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Meth, Vaidya, Prelevic..

Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical MethodologyAuthor(s): Anand Vaidya, Duko Prelevi?\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367431679, 978-0367431679\nSynopsis\nThis book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.\n\nThe contributors utilize both the newer \""metaphysics-first\"" and the more traditional \""epistemology-first\"" approaches to these issues. 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 what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible.