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Author:   Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University) ,  Samuel Newlands (Carl E Koch Professor of Philosophy, Carl E Koch Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 20.10cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 14.50cm
Weight:   0.408kg
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9780190089863

ISBN 10:   0190089865
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   03 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Contributors Series Editor's Foreword Introduction YITZHAK Y. MELAMED & 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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Readers will learn how a seemingly timeless and changeless cluster of modal concepts have undergone significant revisions and enjoy a rich developmental history. * MathSciNet *

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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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