Boris Kment

Boris Kment is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, specializing in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. His research examines modality, counterfactuals, causation, and the metaphysical role of individuals, as articulated in his book Modality and Explanatory Reasoning (Oxford, 2014).

Research focuses on:

• Analysis of necessity through counterfactual reasoning
• World similarity based on explanatory connections
• Essential truths and grounding relations
• Metaphysical foundations of chance and counterfactuals

Recent work (2021-2023) addresses paradoxes in propositional metaphysics, decision theory under determinism, and modal epistemology. Kment's approach emphasizes explanatory priority over modal concepts, arguing modality serves as evidential tool for causal/grounding structures.