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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