Logical Modalities from Aristotle to CarnapM. J. Cresswell, Adriane Rini, Edwin Mares 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. |
Contents
Contents | 7 |
Aristotle on the Necessity of the Consequence | 11 |
Aristotle on OneSided Possibility | 29 |
Why Does Aristotle Need a Modal Syllogistic? | 50 |
Necessity Possibility and Determinism in Stoic Thought | 70 |
Necessity in Avicenna and the Arabic Tradition | 91 |
Early Twelfth | 113 |
Ockham and the Foundations of Modality in | 133 |
Leibnizs Theories of Necessity | 194 |
Leibniz and the Lucky Proof | 218 |
Jonathan Westphal 12 Divine Necessity and Kants Modal Categories | 232 |
Charles Sanders Peirce on Necessity | 256 |
Catherine Legg and Cheryl Misak 14 The Development of C I Lewiss Philosophy | 279 |
Carnaps Modal Predicate Logic | 298 |
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