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Modality : a history / edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Samuel Newlands.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford philosophical concepts.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford philosophical concepts
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modality (Logic).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Aristotle on modality / Marko Malink
- Hume on modal discourse / Thomas Holden
- Modality and essence in contemporary metaphysics / Kathrin Koslicki.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 2, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-008989-X
- 0-19-008987-3
- OCLC:
- 1407033265
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