Modality

Feb 5

Tuesday Topic

This week we'll conclude our overview of Metaphysics topics that provide you with important tools for this course, with a focus on modality. We'll discuss modal language, various alethic and non-alethic modalities, Modal Realism, and Modal Ersatzism. We'll also touch on impossible worlds, and the lecture will be followed up with an asynchronous supplemental lecture on Logical Pluralism and how it relates to an ontology that gives us impossible worlds for free.

This Week's Readings

Required Readings:

Read one of the following (your choice):

SEP entry on Possible Worlds

or

Optional Readings:

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Thursday Workshop

Because we didn't have class on Tuesday, our Thursday session will be a lecture from me, rather than a presentation day for you. You do not need to do a reading report for this week, but please do the required reading for the lecture.

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