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Error Theory
essentialist approaches to modality
essentialist epistemology
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Logical Modalities
Logical Necessity
logical positivism
Logical Possibility
Logical Syntax
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Metaphysical Necessity
Metaphysics
Modal Attributions
Modal Eliminativism
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Modal Knowledge
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Modal Primitivism
modal realism
Modality
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Natural Kind Concept
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- ISBN 9781138733930
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 149 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 08 Dec 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This title was first published in 2001. Modality and Anti-Metaphysics critically examines the most prominent approaches to modality among analytic philosophers in the twentieth century, including essentialism. Defending both the project of metaphysics and the essentialist position that metaphysical modality is conceptually and ontologically primitive, Stephen McLeod argues that the logical positivists did not succeed in banishing metaphysical modality from their own theoretical apparatus and he offers an original defence of metaphysics against their advocacy of its elimination. Seeking to assuage the sceptical worries which underlie modal anti-realism, McLeod provides an original contribution to essentialist epistemology, engaging with current debates about modality and suggesting that standard essentialist approaches to some issues in the philosophies of logic and language require revision. This book offers valuable insights to professional philosophers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in metaphysics, philosophy of logic or the history of twentieth-century analytic philosophy.
