Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.

The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or...