Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis is concerned with the epistemology of absolute alethic necessity.The thesis begins with a characterisation of absolute alethic necessity and its distinc tive epistemology.The challenge of explaining the reliability of belief in necessity is identified as the primary goal of the thesis and four broad forms of response to that challenge are identified.Of the four strategies, two are dismissed as prima facie inapplicable to the case of necessity.The two remaining options are identified as Modal Anti-Realism and Non-Standard Realism.In chapter 2, it is suggested that the field can Chapters Chapter 1. Project Outline Chapter 2. Modality and Anti-Realism Chapter 3. Conceivability and Imagination Chapter 4. Counterfactuals Chapter 5.The Normativity of Supposition Chapter 6.The Modal Concepts and Supposition Chapter 7. The Normativity of Content Chapter 8.
Author: Paul Adrian Ramshaw
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2611962909