The actual and the possible : modality and metaphysics in modern philosophy /

This work presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history...

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Modality and metaphysics in modern philosophy
Aspects of Spinoza's Theory of Essence: Formal Essence, Non-Existence and Two Types of Actuality /
Wolff's Close Shave with Fatalism /
Modal Adventures after Leibniz: Existence and (Temporal, Logical, Real) Possibilities /
Kant's Material Condition of Real Possibility /
Hegel's Expressivist Modal Realism /
Russell on Modality /
Modality and Degrees of Truth: an Austro-Polish Sideline in 20th-Century Modal Thought /
Heidegger on 'Possibility' /
De Re Modality in the Late 20th Century: the Prescient Quine /
1. Verfasser:
Sinclair, Mark
Weitere Verfasser:
Sinclair, Mark (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
This work presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history.
Umfang:
1 online resource.
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-108974-5
0-19-182875-0
Schlagworte:
Metaphysics.
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
First philosophy.
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