Tag Archives: modal rationalism

Johnny SAKR ABSTRACT: This paper advances a conditional rationalist argument against the metaphysical possibility of backward time travel. It proceeds from the assumption, accepted by some but not all modal rationalists, that metaphysical possibility is constrained by intelligibility, where intelligibility requires non-circular explanation and justification. Under this assumption, worlds that violate either the Strong Principle of Sufficient Reason (Strong-PSR) or …

Mihai RUSU ABSTRACT: The objection from the insolvability of principle-based modal disagreements appears to support the claim that there are no objective modal facts, or at the very least modal facts cannot be accounted for by modal rationalist theories. An idea that resurfaced fairly recently in the literature is that the use of ordinary empirical statements presupposes some prior grasp of …

Mihai RUSU ABSTRACT: In this paper, I discuss the main characteristics of the epistemology of modal rationalism by proceeding from the critical investigation of Peacocke’s theory of modality. I build on arguments by Crispin Wright and Sonia Roca-Royes, which are generalised and supplemented by further analysis, in order to show that principle-based accounts have little prospects of succeeding in their task …