An alternative view is elaborated according to which design representations are means for counterfactual understanding, knowledge generalisation, and knowledge unification.
The Question of Dependence: Does the counterfactual account of our knowledge of metaphysical modality depend on any kind of modal knowledge?
Rebecca Hanrahan (2009) and Sonia Roca-Royes (2010, 2011a,b, 2012) provide a treatment of some of the problems with modal rationalism, moderate rationalism, and counterfactual accounts of modal knowledge.
The Question of Imaginative Engagement: Since the counterfactual account of our knowledge of metaphysical modality depends on counterfactual reasoning in imagination, what are the details of how the counterfactual imagination works?
The Question of Scope: Given that the counterfactual account of our knowledge of metaphysical modality aims to capture metaphysical modality, does it really do so for the wide range of metaphysically modal claims that are known?
If the propositions that are supposed to be the objects of a priori justification and knowledge are really counterfactual conditionals, then our justification for believing them could rest on empirical evidence (Williamson 2007b).
This argument also involves several counterfactuals, since to construct it the agents must be able to evaluate conditionals of the form, "If node ni were to be reached, Alan (Fiona) would choose Li (Ri)", which for i > 1 are counterfactual, since third-order mutual knowledge of rationality implies that nodes n2, n3, and n4 are never reached.
An introduction to the logical study of modality in its many forms: reasoning about necessity, knowledge, obligation, time, counterfactuals, provability, and other modal notions.
Molina's 'middle knowledge' theory about counterfactuals of freedom was actively debated in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and has remained a living issue in the philosophy of religion (Dekker 2000).
After all, Adam if for a moment we disregard problems about knowledge and indeterminacy in counterfactual choices (Hurley 2001, 66 69; Hurley 2003, 164 168)—might correctly say that his case is identical to Beatrice's, and that he was merely unlucky not to be talented.
