Modality Possible Worlds And Relations In The Philosophy Of Leibniz
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The Actual and the Possible
Author | : Mark Sinclair |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0198786433 |
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.
Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds
Author | : Gregory Brown |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2016-12-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319426958 |
This volume brings together a number of original articles by leading Leibniz scholars to address the meaning and significance of Leibniz’s notions of compossibility and possible worlds. In order to avoid the conclusion that everything that exists is necessary, or that all possibles are actual, as Spinoza held, Leibniz argued that not all possible substances are compossible, that is, capable of coexisting. In Leibniz’s view, the compossibility relation divides all possible substances into disjoint sets, each of which constitutes a possible world, or a way that God might have created things. For Leibniz, then, it is the compossibility relation that individuates possible worlds; and possible worlds form the objects of God’s choice, from among which he chooses the best for creation. Thus the notions of compossibility and possible worlds are of major significance for Leibniz’s metaphysics, his theodicy, and, ultimately, for his ethics. Given the fact, however, that none of the approaches to understanding Leibniz’s notions of compossibility and possible words suggested to date have gained universal acceptance, the goal of this book is to gather a body of new papers that explore ways of either refining previous interpretations in light of the objections that have been raised against them, or ways of framing new interpretations that will contribute to a fresh understanding of these key notions in Leibniz’s thought.
Discourse on Metaphysics
Author | : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Metaphysics |
ISBN | : |
Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds
Author | : Alexander R. Pruss |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441145168 |
Actuality, Possibility and Worlds is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible. The notion of possible worlds appears to be useful for many purposes, such as the analysis of counterfactuals or elucidating the nature of propositions and properties. This usefulness of possible worlds makes for a second general question: Are there any possible worlds and, if so, what are they? Are they concrete universes as David Lewis thinks, Platonic abstracta as per Robert M. Adams and Alvin Plantinga, or maybe linguistic or mathematical constructs such as Heller thinks? Or is perhaps Leibniz right in thinking that possibilia are not on par with actualities and that abstracta can only exist in a mind, so that possible worlds are ideas in the mind of God?
Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Time and Space
Author | : Michael Futch |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2008-04-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402082371 |
Leibniz’s metaphysics of space and time stands at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the high-water marks in the history of the philosophy of science. In this work, Futch provides the first systematic and comprehensive examination of Leibniz’s thought on this subject. In addition to elucidating the nature of Leibniz’s relationalism, the book fills a lacuna in existing scholarship by examining his views on the topological structure of space and time, including the unity and unboundedness of space and time. It is shown that, like many of his more recent counterparts, Leibniz adopts a causal theory of time where temporal facts are grounded on causal facts, and that his approach to time represents a precursor to non-tensed theories of time. Futch then goes on to situate Leibniz’s philosophy of space and time within the broader context of his idealistic metaphysics and natural theology. Emphasizing the historical background of Leibniz’s thought, the book also places him in dialogue with contemporary philosophy of science, underscoring the enduring philosophical interest of Leibniz’s metaphysics of time and space.
Necessary Beings
Author | : Bob Hale |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199669570 |
Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.
Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics
Author | : Ohad Nachtomy |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2007-06-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1402052456 |
This book reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz’s metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones. It presents Leibniz’s subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. The book provides an original approach to the questions of individuation and relations in Leibniz, offering a novel account of Leibniz’s notion of Nested Individuals.
Leibniz, God and Necessity
Author | : Michael V. Griffin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521117089 |
This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.
The Metaphysics of Modality
Author | : Graeme Forbes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Analytic philosophy has recently demonstrated a revived interest in metaphysical problems about possibility and necessity. Graeme Forbes here provides a careful description of the logical background of recent work in this area for those who may be unfamiliar with it, moving on to d discuss the distinction between modality de re and modality de dicto and the ontological commitments of possible worlds semantics. In addition, Forbes offers a unified theory of the essential properties of sets, organisms, artefacts, substances, and events, based on the doctrine that identity facts must be intrinsically grounded, and analyzes and rejects apparent counterexamples to this doctrine.