Norms and Necessity

by Amie Thomasson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190098198
• ISBN13: 9780190098193
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"