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Title Logical modalities from Aristotle to Carnap : the story of necessity / edited by Max Cresswell, Edwin Mares, Adriane Rini
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of tables; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Aristotle on the Necessity of the Consequence; 1. Introduction; 2. Non-modal Reasoning in An. Pr. (the Assertoric Syllogistic); 3. Deductions Involving Necessary Premises in An. Pr. (the Apodeictic Syllogistic); 4. Deductions Involving Premises about Possibility in An. Pr. (the Problematic Syllogistic); 2 Aristotle on One-Sided Possibility; 1. The Problematic Passage; 2. Establishing One-Sided Possibility in Prior Analytics 1.13 (32a21-28)
3. Establishing One-Sided Possibility in De interpretatione 13 (22b11-14)4. The Revised Square of Modal Expressions (De interpretatione 13 22b10-28); 3 Why Does Aristotle Need a Modal Syllogistic?; 1. Syllogistic in the Posterior Analytics; 2. The Modal Syllogistic and Possibility; 3. The Necessity Syllogistic; 4 Necessity, Possibility, and Determinism in Stoic Thought; 1. Introduction; 2. Textual Evidence; 3. Conclusion; 5 Necessity in Avicenna and the Arabic Tradition; 1. Introduction; 2. Avicenna; 3. Formalisation; 4. Averroes; 5. Ra zı; 6. Formalisation; 6.1 Impossible Subjects
6.2 The Logical Relations between Intensional and Extensional Propositions6.3 The Relation between the Intensional/Extensional and ; 7. Summary; 6 Modality without the Prior Analytics; 1. Ancient Sources; 2. Eleventh and Twelfth Century Developments; 3. Abaelard on Simple and Determinate Modalities; 4. Conclusion; 7 Ockham and the Foundations of Modality in the Fourteenth Century; Prologue; 1. Part I. The Foundation; 1.1 Something between a Fable and a Fact; 1.2 Reflection; 1.3 Ockham; 2. Part II Modal Logic; 3. Appendix
8 Theological and Scientific Applications of the Notion of Necessity in the 1. Necessity and Necessary Existence in Aquinas; 1.1. Self-Evidence; 1.2. Tensed Necessity (Necessity per Accidens); 1.3. Absolute Necessity; 1.4. Necessary and Contingent Being; 2. The Early Modern Period: Theologians, Logicians, and Natural Philosophers; 2.1. Necessity in Proofs of God's Existence; 2.1.1 Cudworth; 2.1.2 Lowde; 2.1.3. Boyle's S4 Argument from Miracles; 3. Necessity in Demonstration; 3.1. The logicians; 3.2. The Mathematicians; 9 Locke and the Problem of Necessity in Early Modern Philosophy
1. The General Problem of Necessity in Early Modern Philosophy2. Locke on Necessity; 3. Conclusion; 10 Leibniz's Theories of Necessity; 1. Introduction; 2. Leibniz's Theory of Per Se Possibles; 3. Infinite Analysis; 4. Leibniz's Possible Worlds and the Nature of Necessity; 5. God and Necessity; 6. Conclusion; 11 Leibniz and the Lucky Proof; 12 Divine Necessity and Kant's Modal Categories; 1. Introduction; 2. Schematized and Unschematized Categories; 3. Real Possibility and the Categories; 4. Absolutely Necessary Existence; 5. Abbreviations for Works of Kant
Summary Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval (including Arabic) traditions, and then moves to the early modern period with particular attention to Locke and Leibniz. The views of Kant, Peirce, C. I. Lewis and Carnap complete the volume. Many of the essays illuminate the connection between the historical figures studied, and recent or current work in the philosophy of modality. The result is a rich and wide-ranging picture of the history of the logical modalities
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Subject Necessity (Philosophy) -- History
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Modality (Logic)
PHILOSOPHY -- Free Will & Determinism.
Modalidad (Lógica)
Modality (Logic)
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Necessity (Philosophy)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cresswell, M. J., editor.
Mares, Edwin David, editor.
Rini, Adriane, editor.
ISBN 9781316761175
1316761177
9781316761267
1316761266
9781139939553
1139939556
9781316760994
1316760995