Thought-transplants, demons, and modalities
pp. 369-381
in: Jenny Pelletier, Magali Roques (eds), The language of thought in late medieval philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
This chapter argues that the author's earlier argument for the claim that the new nominalist conception of concept-identity significantly contributed to the emergence of what became known as "Demon-skepticism" after Descartes, needs to be supplemented by further considerations concerning the type of modalities involved. More specifically, the possibility of the "full-blown, solipsistic Demon-skepticism" envisioned by Descartes requires, besides the nominalist conception of concept-identity clearly present in Adam Wodeham's work, the type of non-S5 modality espoused by Descartes which was still not endorsed by Wodeham.
