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Title The actual and the possible : modality and metaphysics in modern philosophy / edited by Mark Sinclair
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Mind association occasional series
Mind Association occasional series.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Metaphysics.
First philosophy.
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
First philosophy
Metaphysics
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Form Electronic book
Author Sinclair, Mark, editor
ISBN 9780191089732
0191089737
9780191828751
0191828750