Counterfactuals, Modal Knowledge, and Understanding

In this essay, I attempt to diagnose and show the importance of a structural problem that affects Williamson’s counterfactual epistemology of modality. First, I provide a general, even if somewhat heuristical, description of the requirements that a realist epistemology of modality must fulfil. The...

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Published in:	Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
Main Author:	Mihai RUSU
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	Babeș-Bolyai University 2025-08-01
Subjects:	modal epistemology realism metaphysical modality philosophy of language understanding counterfactuals
Online Access:	https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/9462