What Everett Couldn’t Know [Special Issue]
Issue: Issue 19 • Author/s: Tom Schoonen
Topics: Epistemology, Modal Logic, Ontology, Theoretical philosophy
In an impressive feat of combining modal metaphysics with fundamental quantum mechanics, Wilson (2020) presents a new genuine realist metaphysics of modality: Quantum Modal Realism. One of the main motivations for Wilson’s project is to do better than existent realist metaphysics of modality with regards to epistemic challenge: we should be able to explain our knowledge of modality. In this paper, I will argue that there is a significant worry for the epistemology of Wilson’s modal metaphysics, one that parallels Rosen’s objection to Lewis genuine modal realism. That is, quantum…