Samuel Kimpton-Nye
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Kimpton-Nye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimpton-Nye |
| SIGNATURE | KIMPTON-NYE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Relative modality and real modality
This paper discusses some issues for Leech’s ‘Modal Transcendentalism’. The first concerns what Modal Transcendentalism might say about nomological modality, the second concerns Modal Transcendentalism’s claim to provide an account of real modality. To this end, I draw some connections between the (failure of) duality of the modal operators, amodalism (the thesis that there are some propositions with no modal status), and realism and anti-realism…
Necessary Laws and the Problem of Counterlegals
Substantive counterlegal discourse poses a problem for those according to whom the laws of nature are metaphysically necessary. I discern two types of necessitarianism about laws: dispositional essentialism and modal necessitarianism. I argue that Toby Handfield’s response to the problem of counterlegals cannot help the modal necessitarian, according to whom all possible worlds are identical with respect to the laws. I thus propose a fictionalist…
The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism
The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism. By Wilson Alastair. (Oxford: OUP, 2020. Pp. 219. Price £50.00.) Samuel Kimpton-Nye Samuel Kimpton-Nye University of Bristol, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 444–447, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa043 Published: 02 Jun…
Necessary Laws and the Problem of Counterlegals
Substantive counterlegal discourse poses a problem for those according to whom the laws of nature are metaphysically necessary. I discern two types of necessitarianism about laws: dispositional essentialism and modal necessitarianism. I argue that Toby Handfield’s response to the problem of counterlegals cannot help the modal necessitarian, according to whom all possible worlds are identical with respect to the laws. I thus propose a fictionalist…
The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism
The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism. By Wilson Alastair. (Oxford: OUP, 2020. Pp. 219. Price £50.00.) Samuel Kimpton-Nye Samuel Kimpton-Nye University of Bristol, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 444–447, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa043 Published: 02 Jun…
Necessary Laws and the Problem of Counterlegals
Substantive counterlegal discourse poses a problem for those according to whom the laws of nature are metaphysically necessary. I discern two types of necessitarianism about laws: dispositional essentialism and modal necessitarianism. I argue that Toby Handfield’s response to the problem of counterlegals cannot help the modal necessitarian, according to whom all possible worlds are identical with respect to the laws. I thus propose a fictionalist…
The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism
The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism. By Wilson Alastair. (Oxford: OUP, 2020. Pp. 219. Price £50.00.) Samuel Kimpton-Nye Samuel Kimpton-Nye University of Bristol, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 444–447, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa043 Published: 02 Jun…
Relative modality and real modality
This paper discusses some issues for Leech’s ‘Modal Transcendentalism’. The first concerns what Modal Transcendentalism might say about nomological modality, the second concerns Modal Transcendentalism’s claim to provide an account of real modality. To this end, I draw some connections between the (failure of) duality of the modal operators, amodalism (the thesis that there are some propositions with no modal status), and realism and anti-realism…
Epistemology (2 works) · Modal (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Chemistry (1 works) · Computed tomography (1 works) · Contingency (1 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 works) · Essentialism (1 works) · Free Will and Agency (1 works) · Law (1 works)