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Modal metaphysics concerns the metaphysical underpinning of our modal statements. These are statements about what is possible or what is necessarily so. We can construe the primary question of modal metaphysics as, “When we make a statement about what is possible or necessary, what determines the truth or falsity of the statement?”
Nov 27, 2012 · The concepts of metaphysical, epistemic, and nomic necessity are only a few of the modal notions that figure in our thought and discourse (as should be clear from the long list of uses of modal terms given in the introduction to this entry).
May 23, 2008 · In order to explain Leibniz's modal metaphysics—the metaphysics of necessity, contingency, and possibility—we must look first at the foundation of Leibniz's system more generally: his conception of an individual substance.
Sep 10, 2007 · Modality de dicto is the modality of propositions (‘dictum’ means proposition, or close enough). If modality were coextensive with modality de dicto, it would be at least a defensible position that the topic of modality belongs to logic rather than to metaphysics. (Indeed, the study of modal logics goes back to Aristotle’s Prior Analytics.)
Feb 25, 2016 · Andrea Borghini. Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 25, 2016 - Philosophy - 224 pages. A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Modality examines the eight main contemporary theories of...
Jun 29, 2011 · Over time, philosophers have distinguished families of modality: logical, metaphysical, natural, temporal, deontic, epistemic, doxastic, and dynamic. Treatments of these modes have been both formal and philosophical.
May 30, 2017 · In this article the term ‘modality’, when unmodified, will refer to metaphysical modality. Metaphysical modality is what is expressed by ‘possible’ and variants such as ‘possibly’, as well as ‘it could have been the case that…’ and variants, when these are used in the broadest objective sense.
