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What is the relationship between ontology and modality - between what there is, and what there could be, must be, or might have been? Bob Hale interwove these two strands of metaphysics throughout his long and distinguished career, putting forward his theses in his book, Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them (OUP 2013). Hale addressed questions of ontology and modality on a number of fronts: through the development of a Fregean approach to ontology, an essentialist theory of modality, and in his work on neo-logicism in the philosophy of mathematics. The essays in this volume engage with these themes in Hale's work in order to progress our understanding of ontology, modality, and the relations between them. Some directly address questions in modal metaphysics, drawing on ontological concerns, while others raise questions in modal epistemology and of its links to matters of ontology, such as the challenge to give an epistemology of essence. Several essays also engage with questions of what might be called 'modal ontology': the study of whether and what things exist necessarily or contingently. Such issues have an important bearing on the kinds of semantic commitments engendered in logic and mathematics (to the existence of sets, or numbers, or properties, and so on) and the extent to which one's ontology of necessary beings interacts with other plausible assumptions and commitments.
Contents
1: Ivette Fred-Rivera and Jessica Leech: Introduction
2: John Divers: On Some Arguments for the Necessity and Irreducibility of Necessity
3: Kit Fine: The World of Truthmaking
4: Rosanna Keefe and Jessica Leech: Essentialism and Logical Consequence
5: Peter Simons: Radical Contingentism, or: Why not even numbers exist necessarily
6: Stewart Shapiro: Properties and Predicates, Objects and Names: Impredicativity and the Axiom of Choice
7: Roy T Cook: Predication, Possibility, and Choice
8: Richard G Heck Jr: Logicism, Ontology, and the Epistemology of Second-order Logic
9: Øystein Linnebo: On the Permissibility of Impredicative Comprehension
10: Ian Rumfitt: Neo-Fregeanism and the Burali-Forti Paradox
11: Anand Jayprakash Vaidya: Analytic Essentialist Approaches to the Epistemology of Modality
12: Sònia Roca Royes: Rethinking the Epistemology of Modality for abstracta
13: Crispin Wright: Counter-Conceivability Again
