Everyday language is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity, and impossibility are modal terms, and philosophers have long wondered how to best understand them. This volume traces the history of some of the most prominent and important contributions to our understanding of possibility and necessity and related concepts over the past two and half millennia of western philosophy, from ancient Greek philosophers through current debates in the 21st century.
Everyday language is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity, and impossibility are modal terms, and philosophers have long wondered how to best understand them. This volume traces the history of some of the most prominent and important contributions to our understanding of possibility and necessity and related concepts over the past two and half millennia of western philosophy, from ancient Greek philosophers through current debates in the 21st century.
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (Oxford 2013), and Spinoza's Labyrinths (Oxford, forthcoming). His research has been featured in the BBC (The World Tonight), LeMond, Ha'aretz, and Kan Tarbut (Israeli Cultural Radio). Samuel Newlands is the Carl E Koch Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Notre Dame. He has published dozens of articles on early modern philosophy and has directed large research projects on hope and optimism and the problem of evil. He has also received two NEH fellowships, including to support work on his monograph Reconceiving Spinoza (OUP, 2018) and two new book projects in early modern studies.
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Acknowledgements Contributors Series Editor's Foreword Introduction YITZHAK Y. MELAMED and 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
Acknowledgements Contributors Series Editor's Foreword Introduction YITZHAK Y. MELAMED and 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
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