UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FILOSÓFICAS

_{Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas 
Proyecto CBF2023-2024-55}

Plática

Modalism and Modality’s Epistemology

Otávio Bueno
_{(Department of Philosophy, University of Miami)}

Miércoles 16 de octubre 2024, 16:00 horas 
Sala de Seminarios Fernando Salmerón

Modalism is the view according to which modality (what is possible, what is necessary) is primitive—it cannot be defined in non-modal terms (Shalkowski [1994], Bueno and Shalkowski [2009], [2013], [2015], and [2023], and Bueno [2021]). In this work, I will: (i) present some of the motivations for modalism; (ii) discuss how modalism arises naturally from the very foundations of one of the most important theories in physics (quantum mechanics); (iii) discuss how various rival views—conventionalism, model-theoretic view, and essentialism—are unable to accommodate the source of modality in this context, and (iii) sketch key traits of an alternative (empiricist) modalist epistemology.

Informes: logica.mexa@gmail.com 
^{Responsables: Dr. Luis Estrada González y Dr. Christian Romero}