Modalities In Medieval Philosophy
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Author | : Simo Knuuttila |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429621345 |
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Originally published in 1993, Modalities in Medieval Philosophy looks at the idea of modality as multiplicity of reference with respect to alternative domains. The book examines how this emerged in early medieval discussions and addresses how it was originally influenced by the theological conception of God acting by choice. After a discussion of ancient modal paradigms, the author traces the interplay of old and new modal views in medieval logic and semantics, philosophy and theology. A detailed account is given of late medieval discussions of the new modal logic, epistemic logic, and the logic norms. These theories show striking similarities to some basic tenets of contemporary approaches to modal matters. This work will be of considerable interest to historians of philosophy and ideas and philosophers of logic and metaphysics.
Author | : Simo Knuuttila |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429619197 |
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Originally published in 1993, Modalities in Medieval Philosophy looks at the idea of modality as multiplicity of reference with respect to alternative domains. The book examines how this emerged in early medieval discussions and addresses how it was originally influenced by the theological conception of God acting by choice. After a discussion of ancient modal paradigms, the author traces the interplay of old and new modal views in medieval logic and semantics, philosophy and theology. A detailed account is given of late medieval discussions of the new modal logic, epistemic logic, and the logic norms. These theories show striking similarities to some basic tenets of contemporary approaches to modal matters. This work will be of considerable interest to historians of philosophy and ideas and philosophers of logic and metaphysics.
Author | : Simo Knuuttila |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400929153 |
Download Modern Modalities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The word "modem" in the title of this book refers primarily to post-medieval discussions, but it also hints at those medieval mo dal theories which were considered modem in contradistinction to ancient conceptions and which in different ways influenced philosophical discussions during the early modem period. The me dieval developments are investigated in the opening paper, 'The Foundations of Modality and Conceivability in Descartes and His Predecessors', by Lilli Alanen and Simo Knuuttila. Boethius's works from the early sixth century belonged to the sources from which early medieval thinkers obtained their knowledge of ancient thought. They offered extensive discus sions of traditional modal conceptions the basic forms of which were: (1) the paradigm of possibility as a potency striving to realize itself; (2) the "statistical" interpretation of modal no tions where necessity means actuality in all relevant cases or omnitemporal actuality, possibility means actuality in some rel evant cases or sometimes, and impossibility means omnitemporal non-actuality; and (3) the "logical" definition of possibility as something which, being assumed, results in nothing contradic tory. Boethius accepted the Aristotelian view according to which total possibilities in the first sense must prove their met tle through actualization and possibilities in the third sense are assumed to be realized in our actual history. On these presump tions, all of the above-mentioned ancient paradigms imply the Principle of Plenitude according to which no genuine possibility remains unrealized.
Author | : Vesa Hirvonen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047409671 |
Download Mind and Modality Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume offers a wide-ranging and profound collection of essays on philosophical psychology and conceptions of modality from antiquity to the present day, with some essays on the philosophy of religion as well.
Author | : Max Cresswell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1316760456 |
Download Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval (including Arabic) traditions, and then moves to the early modern period with particular attention to Locke and Leibniz. The views of Kant, Peirce, C. I. Lewis and Carnap complete the volume. Many of the essays illuminate the connection between the historical figures studied, and recent or current work in the philosophy of modality. The result is a rich and wide-ranging picture of the history of the logical modalities.
Author | : Irene Binini |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004470468 |
Download Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book offers a major reassessment of Abelard’s modal logic and theory of modalities, and provides a comprehensive study of the 12th-century context in which his views originated and developed, by analysing many logical sources that are still unedited and mostly unexplored.
Author | : Norman Kretzmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521369336 |
Download The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A history of philosophy from 1100-1600 concentrating on the Aristotelian tradition in the Latin Christian West. "will long remain the major guide to later medieval philosophy and related topics. Most of the essays are exciting and challenging, some of them truly brilliant." --Speculum
Author | : John Marenbon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190246979 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This Handbook shows the links between medieval and contemporary philosophy. Topic-based essays on all areas of philosophy explore this relationship and introduce the main themes of medieval philosophy. They are preceded by the fullest chronological survey now available of the different traditions: Latin and Greek, Islamic and Jewish.
Author | : Ernest A. Moody |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2022-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520358791 |
Download Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Science, and Logic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Students of medieval thought have long been stimulated by the work of Ernest A. Moody. That intellectual debt should be increased by this volume, which brings together the significant shorter studies and essays he wrote in the period 1933 - 1969. The collection should be particularly useful to the medievalist who finds it difficult to see where the detailed monographic research of the past half-century is leading. An initial lengthy study, on William of Auvergne and his treatise De anima, has not hitherto appeared in print. Five of the essays deal with late medieval physics and its relation to the mechanics of Galileo; others bear on medieval logic and philosophy of language, with reference to contemporary treatments of those subjects; and several studies are concerned with the historical and philosophical significance of Ockham, Buridan, and the via moderna of the fourteenth century. In his Introduction Moody discusses the development of his interests in medieval thoughts and offers some critical reflections on the essays. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2018-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004368736 |
Download The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Since antiquity, philosophers have investigated how change works. If a thing moves from one state to another, when exactly does it start to be in its new state, and when does it cease to be in its former one? In the late Middle Ages, the "problem of the instant of change” was subject to considerable debate and gave rise to sophisticated theories; it became popular and controversial again in the second half of the twentieth century. The studies collected here constitute the first attempt at tackling the different aspects of an issue that, until now, have been the object of seminal but isolated forays. They do so in through a historical perspective, offering both the medieval and the contemporary viewpoints. Contributors are Damiano Costa, Graziana Ciola, William O. Duba, Simo Knuuttila, Greg Littmann, Can Laurens Löwe, Graham Priest, Magali Roques, Niko Strobach, Edith Dudley Sylla, Cecilia Trifogli and Gustavo Fernández Walker.