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Ever since the beginnings of philosophical thought in Greek antiquity, philosophers have made use of modalities such as necessity and possibility. In particular, the concepts of necessity and 'what must be' played an important role in Pre-Socratic thought. For example, Anaximander maintain...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Modality (Oxford University Press)
Other Authors: Melamed, Yitzhak, 1968- (Editor), Newlands, Samuel (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2024].
Series:Oxford philosophical concepts.
Subjects:
Modality (Theory of knowledge) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Yitzhak Y. Melamed & Samuel Newlands
  • 1. Aristotle on Modality / Marko Malink
  • 2. Modality in Medieval Latin Philosophy / Simo Knuuttila
  • Reflection: Necessity in the Cosmology of Tommaso Campanella / Emanuele Costa
  • 3. Modality and Essence in Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke / Anat Schechtman
  • 4. Crescas and Spinoza on Modality / Yitzhak Y. Melamed
  • 5. Leibniz on Modality / Samuel Newlands
  • Reflection: The Infinity of Worlds in Modern Kabbalah / Jonathan Garb
  • 6. Hume on Modal Discourse / Thomas Holden
  • 7. Modality in Kant and Hegel / Nicholas Stang
  • Reflection: Music and Modality / Domeniica G. Romagni
  • 8. Modality in 20th Century Philosophy / Kris McDaniel
  • Reflection: Vacuism and the Strangeness of Impossibility / Rohan French
  • 9. Modality and Essence in Contemporary Metaphysics / Kathrin Koslicki
  • Reflection: Clarice Lispector - Writing of Necessity / Paula Marchesini.