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The Actual and the Possible - Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Actual and the Possible - Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Mind Association Occasional Series
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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.
The ultimate purpose of this historical approach is to
contextualise and even to offer some alternatives to dominant
positions within the contemporary philosophy of modality. Hence the
volume contains not only new scholarship on the early-modern
doctrines of Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff and
Immanuel Kant, but also work relating to less familiar
nineteenth-century thinkers such as Alexius Meinong and Jan
Lukasiewicz, together with essays on celebrated nineteenth- and
twentieth-century thinkers such as G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger
and Bertrand Russell, whose modal doctrines have not previously
garnered the attention they deserve. The volume thus covers a
variety of traditions, and its historical range extends to the end
of the twentieth century, addressing the legacy of W. V. Quine's
critique of modality within recent analytic philosophy.
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