- Uniform Title
- Modality and explanatory reasoning (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Modality and explanatory reasoning (Online)
- Modality & explanatory reasoning
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-347) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Synopsis -- The nature of modality -- Absolute necessity and iterated modality -- On the contingency of worlds -- A theory of worlds -- Essence, laws, and explanation -- Metaphysical and nomic necessity -- The standards of colseness -- Clarifications, additions, and objections -- Causation, nomic determination, and the counterfactual test -- On the genealogy of modality -- Extensions and limitations of the counterfactual test.
- LCCN
- 2014941176
- OCLC
- ssj0001455604
- Author
Kment, Boris Christian, 1975-
- Title
Modality and explanatory reasoning [electronic resource] / Boris Kment.
- Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Edition
First edition.
- Description
1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-347) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Summary
Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.
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- Spine Title
Modality & explanatory reasoning