Overview
- Represents a broad range of positions on the sources of modal knowledge, highlighting the new trend toward empiricism in modal epistemology
- Features essays that explore candidate empirical sources and marks the trend toward away from modal rationalism and toward modal empiricism
- Shows that the basic element in empirical sources of modal knowledge is an inference from the actual to the possible
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 378)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bob Fischer is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and works on problems in modal epistemology and applied ethics. He is co-editor of The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (Oxford University Press, 2015), editor of College Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016), and author of Modal Justification via Theories (Springer, forthcoming).
Felipe Leon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at El Camino College. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. He works primarily on issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. His current research focuses on the nature and scope of modal knowledge and its implications for philosophy of religion. His publications include “Why Frankfurt-Examples Don’t Need to Succeed to Succeed” (with Neal Tognazzini. Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 80:3, 20, “Moreland on the Impossibility of Traversing the Infinite: A Critique” (Philo 14:1, 2012), 10), and The Modal-Knowno Problem” (with Robert William Fischer. Southwest Philosophy Review, forthcoming).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modal Epistemology After Rationalism
Editors: Bob Fischer, Felipe Leon
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44309-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44307-2Published: 16 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83036-0Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44309-6Published: 09 November 2016
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 308
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics