Modality

This Element will guide the reader into the topic of modality, with especial emphasis on the most recent debates.

Sònia Roca-Royes (Author)

9781009001304, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 May 2023

75 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.49 kg

Modality is a vast phenomenon. In fact, it is arguably a plurality of phenomena. Within it, one type of modality warrants distinctive interest in philosophy and, in particular, in metaphysics. In view of this, this Element has a first part devoted to modality as a general phenomenon, where different types of modalities are distinguished, and where the question of unification is raised. Following this, the second part is focused on metaphysical modality: the type of modality that is of distinctive interest in metaphysics, and thus for the series of this Element. In this second part, the overarching question is about the source of metaphysical modality, and the discussion here informs back, and is informed by, the question of unification from the first part. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

1. Introduction
2. Modalities
3. Metaphysical Modality: Its Metaphysics?
4. Concluding Remarks
References.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge [HPK], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ]