The Actual and the Possible: Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy ed. by Mark Sinclair [Book Review]

Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (4):767-768 (2019)
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This edited collection, which grows out of a 2013 British Society for the History of Philosophy conference on the topic of "the actual and the possible" at which early versions of some of the nine essays were presented, explores various episodes in the history of modern metaphysics of modality. It is broad and self-consciously eclectic in its coverage of figures and issues. There are chapters dealing with Spinoza, Wolff, Leibniz and Kant, Kant, Hegel, Russell, Meinong and Łukasiewicz, Heidegger, and Quine. Some of the chapters are synoptic, providing a big picture account of...

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