The Bounds of Possibility

Cian Dorr studied at University College, Cork and Princeton University. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and has previously held positions at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Oxford.John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California and at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. He was previously Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Juhani Yli-Vakkuri is Senior Research Fellow at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic Unieversity. He was previously Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Tartu.

• ForewordIntroduction1: Logical tools2: Tolerance Puzzles3: Motivating Non-contingency4: Coincidence Puzzles5: Accepting Hypertolerance6: Hypertolerance and supervenience7: Rejecting Iteration8: Iteration for metaphysical necessity9: Tolerance and chance10: Tolerance and counterpart theory11: Resolving the puzzles12: Refinements and choice points13: Alternatives and challenges14: Indiscernible Tolerance Arguments15: Non-qualitativeness and aboutnessAppendix A Modal logicsAppendix B Rigidity and Ancestral IterationAppendix C Consequences of the rigidity axiomsAppendix D Narrower modalities in higher-order S4

For any philosopher with a special interest in tolerance puzzles or the interpretation of de re modality, the book should be required reading.