| Portion of title |
Modality and metaphysics in modern philosophy |
| Series |
Mind Association occasional series
Mind Association occasional series. ^A238003
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| Contents |
Aspects of Spinoza's Theory of Essence: Formal Essence, Non-Existence and Two Types of Actuality / Mogens Laerke -- Wolff's Close Shave with Fatalism / Stephan Leuenberger -- Modal Adventures after Leibniz: Existence and (Temporal, Logical, Real) Possibilities / Ohad Nachtomy -- Kant's Material Condition of Real Possibility / Jessica Leech -- Hegel's Expressivist Modal Realism / Christopher Yeomans -- Russell on Modality / Thomas Baldwin -- Modality and Degrees of Truth: an Austro-Polish Sideline in 20th-Century Modal Thought / Peter Simons -- Heidegger on 'Possibility' / Mark Sinclair -- De Re Modality in the Late 20th Century: the Prescient Quine / John Divers. |
| Abstract |
"The Actual and the Possible 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"--Publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017944692 |
| ISBN | 9780198786436 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0198786433 |
