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Ways a world might be: Metaphysical and anti-metaphysical essays. Oxford: Clarendon, 2003.

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Engagement and metaphysical dissatisfaction: Modality and value. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Modality: Metaphysics, logic, and epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

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The metaphysics of modality. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

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Modality. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

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1972-, Davidson Matthew, ed. Essays in the metaphysics of modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Lycan, William G. Modality and meaning. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1994.

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Esistenza necessaria e oggetti possibili: La metafisica modale di Timothy Williamson. Milano: CUEM, 2008.

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Modalität: Möglichkeit, Notwendigkeit, Essenzialismus. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2008.

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Adriane, Rini, ed. The world-time parallel: Tense and modality in logic and metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Modalities: Philosophical essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Jarvis, Thomson Judith, and Byrne Alex, eds. Content and modality: Themes from the philosophy of Robert Stalnaker. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.

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Patterson, Richard. Aristotle's modal logic: Essence and entailment in the Organon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Necessary intentionality: A study in the metaphysics of aboutness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Mere Possibilities Metaphysical Foundations Of Modal Semantics. Princeton University Press, 2012.

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Stroud, Barry. Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction: Modality and Value. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013.

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Levine, Joseph. Modality, Semantics, and Consciousness. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198800088.003.0010.

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Here I present an overall assessment of how Chalmers and I differ on the argumentative route to any form of anti-Materialism. I reframe my objection to the semantic framework he appeals to in his argument and also present reasons for thinking that no choice to adopt one semantic framework over another can yield the metaphysical conclusions he wishes to draw. One basic problem I present is that, using a semantic argument to establish that some realm of phenomena is fundamental, seems to unjustifiably assume a link between the semantically fundamental and the metaphysically fundamental. I also criticize his appeal to modal rationalism as a basis for disallowing so-called “strong necessity.”
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Bacon, Andrew. Vagueness and Modality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198712060.003.0015.

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According to a supervaluationist account of propositional vagueness, in which propositions are sets of world-precisification pairs, contingency and borderlineness are modelled by variation along two independent dimensions. This semantics validates a distinctive combined logic of vagueness and modality, which includes principles stating that modal and vagueness-theoretic notions commute with each other in a certain way. This chapter shows that this logic is inconsistent with the vagueness of metaphysical necessity, and then demonstrates that the preferred symmetry semantics does not have this consequence. It also investigates other theses about the interaction of vagueness and modality, including the thesis that the vague supervenes on the precise. The chapter concludes by exploring some generalizations of the supervaluational approach.
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Meyer, Ulrich. Time and Modality. Edited by Craig Callender. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298204.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses modal logic: the logic of possibility and necessity. After a brief review of modal logic in the second section, the third section presents basic results of propositional tense logic. The fourth section develops a system of quantified tense logic. With these technical preliminaries out of the way, the fifth section explains why tense logic ultimately fails as a linguistic theory of verb tense. The sixth section presents the main objection to tense primitivism: that tense logic has insufficient expressive resources to serve as a metaphysical theory of time. The seventh section argues that the tense primitivist can overcome these problems by treating times as maximally consistent sets of sentences. The eighth section discusses a key difference between time and modality: the lack of a temporal analogue of actualism.
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Abacı, Uygar. Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831556.001.0001.

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This book offers a comprehensive study of Kant’s views on modal notions of possibility, actuality or existence, and necessity. It aims to locate Kant’s views on these notions in their broader historical context, establish their continuity and transformation across Kant’s precritical and critical texts, and determine their role in the substance as well as the development of Kant’s philosophical project. It makes two overarching claims. First, Kant’s precritical views on modality, which appear in the context of his attempts to revise the ontological argument and are critical of the tradition only from within its prevailing paradigm of modality, develop into a revolutionary theory of modality in his critical period, radicalizing his critique of the ontotheological and rationalist metaphysical tradition. While the traditional paradigm construes modal notions as fundamental ontological predicates, expressing different modes or ways of being of things, Kant’s theory consists in redefining them as subjective and relational features of our discursivity, expressing different modes in which our conceptual representations of objects are related to our cognitive faculty. Second, this revolutionary theory of modality does not only become a crucial component of Kant’s critical epistemology and his radical critique of rationalist metaphysics, but it is in fact directly constitutive of the critical turn itself, as Kant originally formulates the latter in terms of a shift from an ontological to an epistemological approach to the question of possibility. Thus, tracing the development of Kant’s understanding of modality comes to fruition in an alternative reading of Kant’s overall philosophical development.
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Newlands, Samuel. Spinoza’s Relevance to Contemporary Metaphysics. Edited by Michael Della Rocca. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195335828.013.021.

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This chapter explores some of Spinoza’s metaphysical views in light of recent discussions in contemporary analytic metaphysics. It focuses on monism, metaphysical dependence, and modality, arguing in each case that Spinoza has interesting, distinctive, and relevant contributions to make to contemporary debates. The chapter highlights the ways Spinoza’s views overlap and diverge from contemporary analogs, shedding light on both contemporary views and Spinoza’s own. It also discusses Spinoza’s commitments to systematicity and explanatory naturalism in metaphysics, and it shows how some of his conclusions flow from these commitments. The chapter begins with a brief overview on how long-dead philosophers can be relevant for contemporary philosophy.
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Bennett, Karen, and Dean W. Zimmerman, eds. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 12. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192893314.001.0001.

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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighboring fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another’s criticisms and questions. Anyone who wants to know what’s happening in metaphysics can start here.
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Williams, Neil E. The Powers Metaphysic. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833574.001.0001.

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Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the repeated application of a single, fundamental ontology. The dominant contemporary metaphysic is that of neo-Humeanism, built on a static ontology typified by its rejection of basic causal and modal features. This book offers and develops a radically distinct metaphysic, one that turns the status quo on its head. Starting with a foundational ontology of inherently causal properties known as ‘powers’, a metaphysic is developed that appeals to powers in explanations of causation, persistence, laws, and modality. Powers are properties that have their causal natures internal to them: they are responsible for the effects in the world. A unique account of powers is developed that understands this internal nature in terms of a blueprint of potential interaction types. After the presentation of the powers ontology, it is put to work in offering solutions to broad metaphysical puzzles, some of which take on different forms in light of the new tools that are available. The defence of the ontology comes from the virtues of metaphysic it can be used to develop. Particular attention is paid to the problems of causation and persistence, simultaneously solving them as it casts them in a new light. The resultant powers metaphysic is offered as a systematic alternative to neo-Humeanism.
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McLeod, Stephen K. Modality and Anti-Metaphysics. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315187471.

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Newlands, Samuel. Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Modality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817260.003.0005.

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Chapter four argues that ignoring a fundamental explanatory question has led interpreters to misunderstand Spinoza’s views on necessity, contingency, possibility, and impossibility. Although the scope of Spinoza’s necessitarianism has also been hotly debated, a central question has gone largely unasked: just what is modality, according to Spinoza? By focusing first on his analysis of necessity, we gain insight into more familiar questions of modal distribution: what exists necessarily, contingently, and so forth. Spinoza ultimately endorses a form of what might now be called anti-essentialism, according to which the modal status of some things depends partly on how those things are conceived. Hence Spinoza affirms both the genuine contingency and strict necessity of one and the same thing’s existence, depending on how it is conceived. After considering Spinoza’s defense of this account, the author turns to why Spinoza thinks we do not, in fact, adopt necessitarian perspectives on the world.
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Dumitru, Mircea, ed. Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199652624.001.0001.

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This book is the first edited volume on the philosophy of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers. The volume is intended for philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists interested in metaphysics, language, and philosophical logic. The readers will benefit from the debates over Kit Fine’s novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, metaphysics of modality, and constitution of things. The work contains original essays which evaluate both the philosophical and some of the formal seminal contributions of Kit Fine to contemporary metaphysics, ontology, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. The chapters in the work also advance new ideas and arguments which help in developing the debates on concepts of interests not only for philosophers but also for linguists and cognitive scientists who are interested in the foundations of their own fields. The work gives Kit Fine’s current views on the topics that he has helped to renew in today’s metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. The work contributes to the furthering of the debates in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of language, focusing on brand new theories in the forefront of analytic philosophy. More generally, the hope is that a thorough discussion of the work of a very innovative and profound author such as Kit Fine can contribute to a better understanding of what is at stake within contemporary analytic philosophy.
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Modality and Anti-Metaphysics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Bennett, Karen, and Dean W. Zimmerman, eds. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 11. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828198.001.0001.

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Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is dedicated to the timely publication of new work in metaphysics, broadly construed. These volumes provide a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. They offer a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighboring fields, such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. This book is the eleventh volume in the series. It contains the work of both established and younger scholars, including the essays that won the Sanders Prize in Metaphysics in 2016 and 2017: Andrew Bacon’s “Relative Locations” and T. Scott Dixon’s “Plural Slot Theory.” Topics covered in this volume include the nature of space and time, the relationalism vs. substantivalism debate, change and fragmentalism, quantum metaphysics, modal combinatorialism, the theory of relations, Humean supervenience, and vagueness.
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McDaniel, Kris. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198719656.003.0001.

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One of the oldest questions in metaphysics concerns not the various natures of beings but rather the nature of being itself: is being unitary or does being fragment? The primary aims of this book are to explicate the idea that being fragments, to show how the fragmentation of being impacts various other extant philosophical disputes, and to defend the tenability and fruitfulness of the idea that being fragments. The book demonstrates the importance of the claim that being fragments by extensively exploring the connections between the various ways being might fragment and philosophical issues pertaining to metaphysical fundamentality, substances and accidents, time, modality, ontological categories, absences and presences, persons, value, ground, and essence.
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Hale, Bob, and Aviv Hoffmann. Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Thomasson, Amie L. Norms and Necessity. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190098193.001.0001.

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This book develops a new approach to understanding our claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible: modal normativism. While claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy, such claims are traditionally thought of as aiming to describe a special kind of modal fact or property, or perhaps facts about other possible worlds. But that assumption leads to difficult ontological, epistemological, and methodological puzzles. Should we accept that there are modal facts or properties, or other possible worlds? If so, what could these things be? How could we come to know what the modal facts or properties are? How can we resolve philosophical debates about what is necessary or possible? The normativist rejects the assumption that modal claims aim to describe modal features or possible worlds, arguing instead that they serve as useful ways of conveying, reasoning with, and renegotiating semantic rules and their consequences. By dropping the descriptivist assumption, the normativist is able to unravel the notorious ontological problems of modality, and provide a clear and plausible story about how we can come to know what is metaphysically necessary or possible. Most importantly, this approach helps demystify philosophical methodology. For we are able to see that resolving metaphysical modal questions does not require a special form of philosophical insight or intuition. Instead, it requires nothing more mysterious than empirical knowledge, conceptual mastery, and an ability to explicitly convey and renegotiate semantic rules.
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Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani, and Mark McCullagh. Williamson on Modality. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Callender, Craig. Laws, Systems, and Time. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797302.003.0007.

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Philosophers and others have posited many metaphysical differences between time and space. An old and deep one connects physical modality with time. This chapter develops a particular version of this idea, namely, that the laws of nature distinguish temporal directions. Put loosely, time is the direction in which physics tells its best stories. This novel picture is put to work by showing how it informally “glues” together the different fragments of time.
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The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality. Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2001.

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Plantinga, Alvin. Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality. Edited by Matthew Davidson. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0195103769.001.0001.

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Necessity & Possibility: The Metaphysics of Modality: Analytical Metaphysics, Volume 5. Routledge, 1999.

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Carruth, Alexander, Sophie Gibb, and John Heil, eds. Ontology, Modality, and Mind. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796299.001.0001.

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During his forty-year career, E. J. Lowe established himself as one of the world’s leading philosophers, publishing eleven single-authored books, four co-edited collections, and well over 200 articles in journals and edited volumes. His scholarship was strikingly broad, ranging from early modern philosophy to the interpretation of quantum mechanics. His most important and sustained contributions were to philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, and, above all, metaphysics. E. J. Lowe was committed to a systematic, realist, and scientifically informed neo-Aristotelean approach to philosophy. This volume brings together essays by philosophers who share these concerns, addressing interrelated themes of his work. In particular, these essays focus on three closely connected topics central not only to Lowe’s work, but also to contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind in general: ontology and categories of being; essence and modality; and the metaphysics of mental causation.
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Modal Logic As Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Williamson, Timothy. Modal Logic As Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, 2015.

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1941-, Tooley Michael, ed. Necessity and possibility: The metaphysics of modality. New York: Garland Pub., 1999.

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Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Modality. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

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Vetter, Barbara. Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality. Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Hale, Bob. Essence and Existence. Edited by Jessica Leech. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854296.001.0001.

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This book is a collection of essays written by Bob Hale (three co-authored), with a critical introduction from Kit Fine. They comprise Hale’s final years of work, adding to and extending beyond his landmark monograph Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them (OUP, 2013, 2nd edition 2015). The essays develop and consolidate several key themes in Hale’s work, most notably the notion of definition, especially as it extends beyond definition of a word to definition of a thing more generally, and its relations to essence and existence; how the recently influential notion of truthmaking relates to and illuminates some of these issues; and ontological questions connected with Hale’s metaphysical commitments on the one hand, and his commitments in the foundations of mathematics on the other. Several of the essays engage with and respond to work by Kit Fine, and contributions to Being Necessary: Themes of Ontology and Modality from the Work of Bob Hale (OUP 2018). As such, these essays also demonstrate a rich and fruitful philosophical dialogue between Hale and his critics and friends.
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Renz, Ursula. The Conception of Metaphysics in de Deo and Its Implications. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199350162.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses the metaphysical prerequisites of Spinoza’s theory of the human mind. Starting from the position that, rather than proposing a rational theology, Part One of the Ethics establishes some sort of general ontology, it is argued, first, that, by maintaining substance monism, Spinoza is committed to the realist claim that being is conceivable, or explainable. Next, the chapter argues for a reconstruction of the terms “substance” and “mode” as establishing a categorical distinction between two sorts of entities. By using these terms in the peculiar manner in which he does, Spinoza does not assume an inherent relation between God and things but posits a categorical, insurmountable difference between them. This position is corroborated by a particular reading of Spinoza’s accounts of modality and causality. The chapter concludes by discussing what it means, for humans, to be modes: they are, by definition, dependent beings, and irreducibly so.
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Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality: Themes from Kit Fine. Oxford University Press, 2020.

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Wilson, Alastair. The Nature of Contingency. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846215.001.0001.

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Contingency is everywhere, but what is it? This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and on cutting-edge metaphysics and philosophy of science, it argues that quantum theories are best understood as telling us about the space of genuine possibilities rather than as telling us solely about actuality. When quantum physics is taken seriously in the way first proposed by Hugh Everett III, it provides the resources for a new systematic metaphysical framework encompassing possibility, necessity, actuality, chance, counterfactuals, and a host of related modal notions. The framework is a modal realist one, in the tradition of David Lewis: all genuine possibilities are on a par, and the actual world is simply the one that we ourselves inhabit. It departs from Lewisian modal realism in that quantum possible worlds are not philosophical posits but scientific discoveries. Contingency and other modal notions have often been seen as beyond the limits of science. Rationalist metaphysicians argue that the metaphysics of modality is strictly prior to any scientific investigation: metaphysics establishes which worlds are possible, and physics merely checks which of these worlds is actual. Naturalistic metaphysicians respond that science may discover new possibilities and new impossibilities. This book’s quantum theory of contingency takes naturalistic metaphysics one step further, allowing that science may discover what it is to be possible. As electromagnetism revealed the nature of light, as acoustics revealed the nature of sound, as statistical mechanics revealed the nature of heat, so quantum physics reveals the nature of contingency.
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Kant's Modal Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Strohminger, Margot, and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri. Moderate Modal Skepticism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798705.003.0016.

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This chapter examines moderate modal skepticism, a form of skepticism about metaphysical modality defended by Peter van Inwagen in order to blunt the force of certain modal arguments in the philosophy of religion. Van Inwagen’s argument for moderate modal skepticism assumes Yablo’s (1993) influential world-based epistemology of possibility. This chapter raises two problems for this epistemology of possibility, which undermine van Inwagen’s argument. It then considers how one might motivate moderate modal skepticism by relying on a different epistemology of possibility, which does not face these problems: Williamson’s (2007) counterfactual-based epistemology. Two ways of motivating moderate modal skepticism within that framework are found unpromising. Nevertheless, the chapter also finds a way of vindicating an epistemological thesis that, while weaker than moderate modal skepticism, is strong enough to support the methodological moral van Inwagen wishes to draw.
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The Actual and the Possible: Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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