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The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality

• Duration: January 2003 - December 2005
• Funded by: The AHRC
• Leader: BobHale (Sheffield)
• Independent auditor: FrankJackson (ANU)
• Other members: JohnDivers, JoshParsons, AvivHoffmann, RossCameron, AnnaSherratt
• Project Description: The Research Problem (Link to the Arché website project page)
• Research Outcomes: Modality Outcomes (Link to the Arché website project outcomes)

The modality project has now ended. Information about past meetings (including workshops) may be found on the ModalitySeminar page.

Occasional talks on Modality now take place in the NostalgiaSeminar.

Project Bibliography

• Modal Logic
  • ModalLogic
  • TwoDimensionalModalLogic

• Theories of Modality
  • ModalRealism (David Lewis style - or 'Genuine' Realism)
  • ModalErsatzism ('Abstractionist', 'Actualist' or 'Moderate' Realism)
  • ActualismAndPossibilism
  • ModalAgnosticism
  • ModalFictionalism
  • CombinatorialTheoriesofPossibility
  • ModalConventionalism
  • RealismAndAntiRealism

• Essentialism & Modality de re
  • CounterpartTheory
  • ModalEssentialism
  • NecessaryExistence
  • ScientificEssentialism

• Modal Knowledge
  • ModalEpistemology
  • NecessaryAPosteriori
  • ContingentAPriori
  • ConceivabilityPossibility

• Impossible Worlds
  • ImpossibleWorlds
  • AbsoluteModality

• Other Modality
  • ModalMiscellaneous

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