The eleven new papers in this volume address fundamental and interrelated philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that were pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century, and remain a key focus of debate in the twenty-first. Identity andModality brings together leading researchers in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics.

• Introduction


• I. Modality


• 1: Gideon Rosen: The Limits of Contingency


• 2: Scott Sturgeon: Modal Infallibilism and Basic Truth


• 3: John Divers and Jason Hagen: The Modal Fictionalist Predicament


• 4: Philip Percival: On Realism about Chance


• II. Identity and Individuation


• 5: Stewart Shapiro: Structure and Identity


• 6: Jukka Keranen: The Identity Problem for Realist Structuralism II: A Reply to Shapiro


• 7: Stewart Shapiro: The Governance of Identity


• 8: Fraser MacBride: The Julius Caesar Objection: More Problematic than Ever


• 9: John Campbell: Sortals and the Binding Problem


• III. Personal Identity


• 10: Keith Hossack: Vagueness and Personal Identity


• 11: Eric T. Olson: The Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity