Panu Raatikainen: "On Chalmers’ Modal Monism"

Panu Raatikainen, Tampere University: "On Chalmers’ Modal Monism"

Abstract
Chalmers' argument against materialism presupposes “Modal Monism”, i.e., that in analyzing both metaphysical necessity and apriority, we can do with a single space of possible worlds. He contends that a sentence S can be true at a single world W in two different ways: W considered as actual ("W verifies S") and W considered as counterfactual ("W satisfies S"). In the talk, I scrutinize Chalmers' framework and raise some worries concerning it.