Modality And Explanatory Reasoning

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 and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.

• | Author: Boris Christian Kment
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 18, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0199604681
• | ISBN-13: 9780199604685