...Tuomas E. Tahko laws essentialism metaphysical necessity physical necessity natural kinds dispositions There are three popular views regarding the modal status of the laws of nature: the Humean Supervenience (HS) approach originating in Lewis's work (e.g., Lewis 1986...

... and metaphysical necessity. It seems that the account of causation he appeals to, an act of the Father's essence, must be non-temporalist, since otherwise there was a time when the Son was not, so imperilling his full divinity. Some paradoxical features of the account are discussed. An eternalist account...

.... Similar to the case of metaphysical necessity, defendants of grounding concede that words like because can be used in multiple ways, and make various stipulations in order to sharpen its meaning to arrive at a unique notion of metaphysical grounding. But even assuming that this succeeds, if every way...

... key notions as part of mind-independent reality, which one might find too strong. Do ordinary objects really contain the oomphs and ethereals of genuine metaphysical necessity and possibility? The anti-realist may render key notions as subjective attitudes projected onto the world with no reality...

... Christian God The Swinburne Christianity metaphysical necessity non contingency criterion Existence of God The Swinburne universe the Big Bang the Hick John necessary properties Aristotle Descartes René eidetic intuition Hesperus Husserl Edmund Kripke Saul Locke John Phosphorus Putnam...

... necessary truths intuition natural kind terms necessity analytic analyticity conceptual necessity skeptical hypothesis epistemic possibility Kripke Saul Williamson Timothy understanding warrant epistemology a priori justification metaphysical necessity concepts epistemic possibility...

... Stephen conceptual analysis modal epistemology modal knowledge metaphysical possibility metaphysical necessity modal rationalism imagination conceivability In the previous chapter, we explained how the major premises of standard philosophical thought-experiment arguments—judgments about what must...

... even in the very special case involving qualitative mental states. In this Appendix I will say something about an alternative proposal concerning metaphysical necessity that has seemed right to me at various times in the past, and that appears to be enjoying a modest surge in popularity at present...

... Rosen G Schaffer J Wilsch T Wilson J Lee G Yalcin S Lewis D Stalnaker R relationalism absolutism chirality metaphysical necessity In Dasgupta ( 2013 ) I argued that mass is fundamentally relational. On this “relationalist” view, the physical state of a system of bodies vis-à-vis mass consists...

... w₂ D* AU A is permissible This chapter explores Fine’s suggestion that the ethical facts supervene on the natural facts, not as a matter of metaphysical necessity, but rather as a matter of normative...

...Chapter 7 analyzes metaphysical necessity and nomic necessity. To simplify somewhat, worlds with the same metaphysical laws as actuality are closer to the actual world than other worlds—they “form a sphere around actuality.” Worlds with the same metaphysical laws and the same laws...

... Leech Jessica Mallozzi Antonella metaphysical modality metaphysical necessity modal epistemology modality necessity Vaidya Anand J Wallner Michael counterfactual s logical Williamson Timothy essence s Fine Kit Hale Bob passim Lowe E J modal accounts of essence deduction theory Kripke’s...

...The received view is that Kit Fine has shown that the modalist programme of analysing essence (and essential properties) in terms of metaphysical necessity is fundamentally misguided. Recently, however, several would-be modalists have attempted to save the position by responding to this Finean...

... identities will be allowed. The necessity of identity is plausible for natural and on some definitions metaphysical necessity. I will argue, though, that the principle fails for logical and epistemic necessity. Given that coreferential proper names may have different meanings, some identity statements made...

... defined essential property defined property defined Mind Brain and Free Will vii coherence informative designator metaphysical necessity metaphysical possibility metaphysical impossibility There could be no stronger impossibility than logical impossibility, the impossibility that belongs...

... logical and metaphysical necessity is explored, and Ian McFetridge's thesis that logical necessity is the strongest form of non-epistemic necessity is defended. The account of logical necessity is then deployed in elucidating Gareth Evans's distinction between deep and superficial forms of necessity...

...Chapter 6 examines the implications of Unreliability, Dogmatism, and Parochialism for modally immodest philosophizing (that is, philosophizing that requires knowledge of metaphysical necessities): Modally immodest issues should be dismissed and philosophy reoriented. Alternatives to the method...

... with this account of metaphysical necessity. For some, it is not enough that various states of affairs are entailed by the ultimate structure of reality; they must be “necessary” in some deeper, more fundamental sense. What this sense is remains obscure—perhaps, terminally obscure. Nevertheless, I have...

... process causal explanation event normative nonnaturalism normative supervenience metaphysical necessity Lowe’s essentialism normative constitution There are at least two ways, in metaethics, to be a naturalist. ¹ The first consists in denying that moral values and norms are properties...

... between the natural and the normative raise an explanatory challenge for realist non-naturalism, and how it is not at all obvious that quasi-realism offers a way of escaping the challenge. Having briefly explored different kinds of accounts of what it is to have thoughts concerning metaphysical necessity...