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Modality and Explanatory Reasoning (Paperback)
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Modality and Explanatory Reasoning (Paperback)
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Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and
others in the 1960s and 70s, one dominant interest of analytic
philosophers has been in modal truths, which concerns the questions
of what is possible and what is necessary. However, there is
considerable controversy over the source and nature of necessity.
In Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Boris Kment takes a novel
approach to the study of modality that places special emphasis on
understanding the origin of modal notions in everyday thought.
Kment 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.
This procedure is closely related to the controlled experiments of
empirical science. Necessity is defined in terms of causation and
other forms of explanation such as grounding, the relation that
connects metaphysically fundamental facts to non-fundamental ones.
Therefore, contrary to a widespread view, explanation is more
fundamental than modality. The study of modal facts is important
for philosophy, not because these facts are of much metaphysical
interest in their own right, but because they provide evidence
about explanatory relationships. In the course of developing this
position, the book offers new accounts of possible worlds,
counterfactual conditionals, essential truths and their role in
grounding, and a novel theory of how counterfactuals relate to
causation and explanation.
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