Against relationalism about modality.
On a highly influential way to think of modality, that I call 'relationalism', the modality of a state is explained by its being composed of properties, and these properties being related by a higher-order and primitively modal relation. Examples of relationalism are the Dretske-Tooley-Armstrong acc...
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=169870925&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 169870925 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00318116 4L8 jtl: Philosophical Studies issn: 00318116 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2023 vid: 180 iid: 8 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 169870925 10.1007/s11098-023-01981-z ppf: 2245 ppct: 30 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1MB tig: atl: Against relationalism about modality. aug: au: Romero, Carlos affil: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Chile su: Modal logic Essentialism (Philosophy) Necessity (Philosophy) Primitivism Substance (Philosophy) sug: subj: Modal logic Essentialism (Philosophy) Necessity (Philosophy) Primitivism Substance (Philosophy) keyword: Constraint Dispositionalism Higher order Primitive modality ab: On a highly influential way to think of modality, that I call 'relationalism', the modality of a state is explained by its being composed of properties, and these properties being related by a higher-order and primitively modal relation. Examples of relationalism are the Dretske-Tooley-Armstrong account of natural necessity, many dispositional essentialist views, and Wang's incompatibility primitivism. I argue that relationalism faces four difficulties: that the selection between modal relations is arbitrary, that the modal relation cannot belong to any logical order, that to explain how the modal relation can relate properties of different adicities additional ideological complexity has to be introduced, and that not all modal constraints are relational. From the discussion, I will extract desiderata for a successor theory of modality. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Philosophical Studies is a copyright of Springer, 2023. All Rights Reserved. item: Philosophical Studies holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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