Modality: Metaphysics, Logic and Epistemology

Epistemology without Metaphysics

Goal: alternative to dipstick model. (a) to avoid dubious metaphysics (b) to restore epistemology to its proper role Examples: justification of induction justification of logic (c) to allow for a better account of change in fundamental norms. Focus today mostly on (a).

Epistemology and Metaphysics: A Theological Critique

Epistemology is the discipline which analyzes the limits of knowledge while asserting universal principles for any particular discipline. Metaphysics is the discipline which attempts to discern the essence of what really exists while asserting particular means for the implementation of universals. In a sense, epistemology and metaphysics are companions. Epistemology is theoretical while metaphy...

How DoesStrawson Unify Epistemology, Ontology and Logic

Strawson’s conception of analysis as a ‘connective linguistic analysis’ makes it possible for him to achieve an indefinitely large range of ideas or concepts among them are certain numbers of fundamental, general and pervasive concepts or concept-types which not only are pre-theoretical or ahistorical, but also together constitute a structural framework only within whichlogic, ontology and epis...

Time and Modality in Avicennan Logic

The Epistemology of Modality and the Epistemology of Mathematics

In this paper I explore some connections between the epistemology of modality and the epistemology of mathematics, and argue that they have far more in common than it may initially seem to be the case—even though modality need not (in fact, should not) be characterized in terms of possible worlds (as the modal realist insists) and mathematics need not (in fact, should not) be understood in term...