Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and
70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which …

Modality is important to philosophy for many reasons. A first reason derives from
philosophy's traditional association with logic. Advances in modal logic in the middle of the …

Possible worlds, concrete or abstract as you like, are irrelevant to the truthmakers for
modality—or so I shall argue in this paper. First, I present the neo-Humean picture of …

The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions—are
they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal …

A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the
semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This book by distinguished philosopher …

A number of recent authors (Galles and Pearl, Found Sci 3 (1): 151–182, 1998; Hiddleston,
Noûs 39 (4): 232–257, 2005; Halpern, J Artif Intell Res 12: 317–337, 2000) advocate a …

Philosophers and historians have long been suspicious of modal and counterfactual claims.
I argue, however, that historians often legitimately use modal and counterfactual claims for a …

Among the many philosophers who hold that causal facts1 are to be explained in terms of—
or more ambitiously, shown to reduce to—facts about what happens, together with facts …

I develop an alternative to standard semantic theories of subjunctive or" counterfactual"
conditionals using" causal models" of roughly the sort investigated by Judea Pearl (1999 …

It is shown how a causal ordering can be defined in a complete structure, and how it is
equivalent to identifying the mechanisms of a system. Several techniques are shown that …