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 illuminat…
"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 illumina…
This collection of fourteen essays, all published here for the first time, offers a stimulating reassessment of the central theme of Descartes's metaphysics. The first section examines Descartes's place in the history of philosophy and his unique influence in shaping the nature …
Die hier versammelten Beiträge versuchen einerseits, das Problem des vielfach postulierten "Endes" der Metaphysik von verschiedenen denkerischen Standpunkten aus zu besprechen. Sie möchten andererseits aber auch Perspektiven eines Verständnisses von Metaphysik präsentieren, das …
Die hier versammelten Beiträge versuchen einerseits, das Problem des vielfach postulierten "Endes" der Metaphysik von verschiedenen denkerischen Standpunkten aus zu besprechen. Sie möchten andererseits aber auch Perspektiven eines Verständnisses von Metaphysik präsentieren, das …
"This volume offers a comprehensive presentation of Aquinas's metaphysical thought. It is based on a thorough examination of his texts organized according to the philosophical order as he himself describes it rather than according to the theological order."--Jacket
"This volume offers a comprehensive presentation of Aquinas's metaphysical thought. It is based on a thorough examination of his texts organized according to the philosophical order as he himself describes it rather than according to the theological order."--Jacket.