Analytic philosophy has recently demonstrated a revived interest in metaphysical problems about possibility and necessity. Graeme Forbes here provides a careful

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The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions—are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are the

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Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resourc