Books: 'Possibility of Metaphysics'

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Possibility. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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1959-, Rott Hans, and Horák Vítezslav, eds. Possibility and reality: Metaphysics and logic. Frankfurt: Ontos-Verlag, 2003.

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1941-, Tooley Michael, ed. Necessity and possibility: The metaphysics of modality. New York: Garland Pub., 1999.

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Nachtomy, Ohad. Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz’s Metaphysics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5245-3.

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The possibility of metaphysics: Substance, identity, and time. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

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Thomas, Buchheim, Kneepkens C. H, and Lorenz Kuno 1932-, eds. Potentialität und Possibilität: Modalaussagen in der Geschichte der Metaphysik. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2001.

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Dragalina-Chernai︠a︡, E. G. Vozmozhnye miry: Semantika, ontologii︠a︡, metafizika. Moskva: Kanon+, 2011.

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Ramelow, Tilman. Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl: Der Ursprung des Begriffes der besten aller möglichen Welten in der Metaphysik der Willensfreiheit zwischen Antonio Perez S.J. (1599-1649) und G.W. Leibnitz (1646-1716). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

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Metaphysik und Möglichkeitsbegriff bei Aristoteles und Nikolaus von Kues: Eine historisch-systematische Untersuchung. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015.

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Modalität: Möglichkeit, Notwendigkeit, Essenzialismus. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2008.

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1955-, Sugarman Jeff, ed. The psychology of human possibility and constraint. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press, 1999.

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Argüello, Santiago. Posibilidad y principio de plenitud en Tomás de Aquino. Pamp[lona: EUNSA, 2005.

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Berto, Francesco. Impossible Worlds. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Possible worlds: Logic, semantics and ontology. München: Philosophia, 2010.

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Kaufman, Gordon D. The problem of relativism and the possibility of metaphysics: A constructive development of certain ideas in R.G. Collingwood, Wilhelm Dilthey and Paul Tillich. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Services, 1997.

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Giannetto, Giuseppe. Fondamento e mondi possibili in Leibniz. Napoli: Loffredo, 2005.

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Necessity and truthful fictions: Panenmentalist observations. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.

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Esistenza necessaria e oggetti possibili: La metafisica modale di Timothy Williamson. Milano: CUEM, 2008.

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Jansen, Ludger. Tun und Können: Ein systematischer Kommentar zu Aristoteles' Theorie der Vermögen im neunten Buch der "Metaphysik". Frankfurt am Main: Dr. Hänsel-Hohenhausen, 2002.

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Olszewski, Mikołaj. Interpretation and truth: A new annotated edition of Giles of Romes's De plurificatione possibilis intellectus. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN, 2012.

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Rutherford, Samuel. Disputatio scholastica de divina providentia: Variis prælectionibus, quod attinet ad summa rerum capita, tradita S. Theologiæ adolescentibus candidatis in Inclytâ Academiâ Andreapolitanâ, in quâ adversus Jesuitas, Arminianos, Socinianos, de dominio Dei, actione ipsius operosâ circa peccatum, concursu primæ causæ, prædeterminatione & contenditur & decertatur : adjectæ sunt disquisitiones metaphysicæ de ente, possibili, dominio Dei in entia & non entia, & variæ quæstiones quæ ad uberiotem & exquisitiorem cognitionem doctrinæ de providentiâ divinâ imprimis conducunt. Edinburgi: Excudebant Hæredes Georgii Andersoni, pro Roberto Browne ..., 1985.

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Rutherford, Samuel. Disputatio scholastica de divina providentia: Variis prælectionibus, quod attinet ad summa rerum capita, tradita S. Theologiæ adolescentibus candidatis in Inclytâ Academiâ Andreapolitanâ, in quâ adversus Jesuitas, Arminianos, Socinianos, de dominio Dei, actione ipsius operosâ circa peccatum, concursu primæ causæ, prædeterminatione & contenditur & decertatur : adjectæ sunt disquisitiones metaphysicæ de ente, possibili, dominio Dei in entia & non entia, & variæ quæstiones quæ ad uberiotem & exquisitiorem cognitionem doctrinæ de providentiâ divinâ imprimis conducunt. Edinburgi: Excudebant Hæredes Georgii Andersoni, pro Roberto Browne ..., 1985.

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Possibility. Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Jubien, Michael. Possibility. Ebsco Publishing, 2009.

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(Editor), Hans Rott, and Vitezslav Horak (Editor), eds. Possibility and Reality: Metaphysics and Logic. Ontos Verlag, 2003.

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Rott, Hans. Possibility and Reality: Metaphysics and Logic. Ontos-Verlag, 2003.

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Necessity & Possibility: The Metaphysics of Modality: Analytical Metaphysics, Volume 5. Routledge, 1999.

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J, Lowe E. Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2001.

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Nachtomy, Ohad. Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics. Springer, 2010.

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Nachtomy, Ohad. Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics. Springer London, Limited, 2007.

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Nachtomy, Ohad. Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics. Springer, 2008.

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Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics. Springer, 2007.

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The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time. Oxford University Press, USA, 2001.

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Leftow, Brian. The Argument from Possibility. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842215.003.0025.

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This chapter sketches an argument from the metaphysics of possibility to the existence of something that looks very like God. The argument concerns what is called broadly logical, metaphysical, or absolute possibility. The argument begins by contending that the best theory of this places the truth-makers of absolute possibility claims in the powers of actual existing concrete things: this, it contends, provides the most parsimonious metaphysics of possibility. It shows this inter alia by quick comparison with Meinongian, Platonist and David Lewis’ views. The argument leads to something resembling God: an omnipotent, necessarily existing rational agent. The chapter outlines three factors that lead one to ascribe a mind to this necessary being. It would be less strange to us if it had a mind. This provides the overall most adequate “powers” theory of possibility. And it alone seems to let this being provide the possibility that other beings act with libertarian freedom.

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Mere Possibilities Metaphysical Foundations Of Modal Semantics. Princeton University Press, 2012.

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Doyle, Tsarina. Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Doyle, Tsarina. Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Doyle, Tsarina. Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Lowe, E. J. Metaphysics as the Science of Essence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796299.003.0002.

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What is metaphysics? And how is it to be pursued? Elsewhere, I have defended the view that the central task of metaphysics is to chart the possibilities of being: knowledge of what is actual presupposes knowledge of what is possible—of what is really or metaphysically possible. According to this conception of the aim and content of metaphysical theory, metaphysics is above all concerned with identifying the fundamental ontological categories to which all entities, actual and possible, belong. It is, therefore, incumbent upon metaphysicians to explain what it is that grounds metaphysical possibility. This chapter argues that the only coherent account of the ground of metaphysical possibility and of our capacity for modal knowledge is a version of essentialism: a version that I call serious essentialism, to distinguish it from views which appear very similar to it but which, in fact, differ from it fundamentally in certain crucial respects.

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Pattison, George. A Metaphysics of Love. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813521.001.0001.

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The book is the third and final part of a philosophy of Christian life. The first part applied a phenomenological approach to the literature of the devout life tradition, focussing on the feeling of being drawn to devotion to God; the second part examined what happens when this feeling is interpreted as a call or vocation. At its heart, this is the call to love that is made explicit in the Christian love-commandment but is shown to be implied every time human beings address each other in speech. A metaphysics of love explores the conditions for the possibility of such a call to love. Taking into account contemporary critiques of metaphysics, Dante’s vision of ‘the love that moves the sun and other stars’ challenges us to account for the mutual entwining of human and cosmic love and of being/God and beings/creatures in love. Conditions for the possibility of love are shown to include language, time, and social forms that mediate between immediate individual existence and society as a whole. Faced with the history of human malevolence, love also supposes the possibility of a new beginning, which Christianity sees in the Incarnation, manifest as forgiveness. Where existential phenomenology sees death as definitive of human existence, Christianity finds life’s true measure in love. Thus understood, love reveals the truth of being.

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Newlands, Samuel. Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Modality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817260.003.0005.

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Chapter four argues that ignoring a fundamental explanatory question has led interpreters to misunderstand Spinoza’s views on necessity, contingency, possibility, and impossibility. Although the scope of Spinoza’s necessitarianism has also been hotly debated, a central question has gone largely unasked: just what is modality, according to Spinoza? By focusing first on his analysis of necessity, we gain insight into more familiar questions of modal distribution: what exists necessarily, contingently, and so forth. Spinoza ultimately endorses a form of what might now be called anti-essentialism, according to which the modal status of some things depends partly on how those things are conceived. Hence Spinoza affirms both the genuine contingency and strict necessity of one and the same thing’s existence, depending on how it is conceived. After considering Spinoza’s defense of this account, the author turns to why Spinoza thinks we do not, in fact, adopt necessitarian perspectives on the world.

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Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo. Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829041.001.0001.

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The Discourse on Metaphysics, written around January 1686, is one of Leibniz’s fundamental works, since it is the most accomplished systematic expression of Leibniz’s philosophy in the 1680s, the time when Leibniz’s philosophy reached maturity. The point of the Discourse is to give a metaphysics for Christianity. That is, Leibniz’s goal is to give the answers that he believes Christians should give to the basic metaphysical questions, questions about why the world exists, what is the world like, what kinds of things exist, and what is the place of human beings in the world. To this purpose Leibniz discusses some of the most traditional topics of metaphysics, like the nature of God, the purpose of God in creating the world, the nature of substance, the possibility of miracles, the nature of our knowledge, free will, and the justice behind salvation and damnation. This book is a new translation of the Discourse and a philosophical commentary of it.

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Construction Site for Possible Worlds. MIT Press, 2020.

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Pruss, Alexander R., and Joshua L. Rasmussen. Metaphysical Possibility and Necessity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746898.003.0002.

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A highly technical defense of a standard interpretation of “possible” and of “necessary” is given. Specifically, arguments are made for the S5 system of modal logic as background for many of the arguments in the rest of the book. These begin with arguments against analyzing metaphysical necessity in terms of narrow logical necessity (or provability). It is shown, for example, that if metaphysical necessity were narrow logical necessity, then, given Gödel's incompleteness theorems, you get absurd possibilities, like the possibility that 1 = 0 is necessary. Independent arguments are also supplied for the characteristic axioms of S4 and S5. All these arguments help motivate the minimal claim that S5 implicitly defines a coherent concept of “possibility” and of “necessity” relevant to the arguments presented.

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Smeenk, Chris, and Christian Wüthrich. Time Travel and Time Machines. Edited by Craig Callender. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298204.003.0021.

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This chapter examines the logical, metaphysical, and physical possibility of time travel understood in the sense of the existence of closed worldlines that can be traced out by physical objects, arguing that none of the purported paradoxes rule out time travel on the grounds of either logic or metaphysics. More relevantly, modern space–time theories such as general relativity seem to permit models that feature closed worldlines. The chapter discusses what this apparent physical possibility of time travel means, and, furthermore, reviews the recent literature on so-called time machines, of devices that produce closed worldlines where none would have existed otherwise. Finally, it investigates what the implications of the quantum behavior of matter might be for the possibility of time travel, and explicates in what sense time travel might be possible according to leading contenders for full quantum theories of gravity such as string theory and loop quantum gravity.

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Rosenkranz, Sven. Justification as Ignorance. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865636.001.0001.

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Justification as Ignorance offers an original account of epistemic justification as both non-factive and luminous that vindicates core internalist intuitions, without construing justification as an internal condition. The account conceives of justification, in its doxastic and propositional varieties, as a kind of epistemic possibility of knowing, and of being in a position to know, respectively. It thus contrasts with other recently proposed views that characterize justification in terms of the metaphysical possibility of knowing. In developing his account, Rosenkranz devises a suitable non-normal multi-modal epistemic logic for knowledge and being in a position to know that respects the finding that these notions create hyperintensional contexts, defends his conception of justification against well-known anti-luminosity arguments, shows that the account allows for fruitful applications and principled solutions to the lottery and preface paradoxes, and provides a metaphysics of justification, and of its varying degrees of strength, that is compatible with core assumptions of the knowledge-first approach and disjunctivist conceptions of mental states.

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McNulty, Michael Bennett, ed. Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108661072.

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In his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786), Kant accounts for the possibility of an acting-at-a-distance gravitational force, demonstrates the infinite divisibility of matter, and derives analogues to Newtonian laws of motion. The work is his major statement in philosophy of science, and was especially influential in German-speaking countries in the nineteenth century. However, this complex text has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. The chapters of this Critical Guide clarify the accounts of matter, motion, the mathematization of nature, space, and natural laws exhibited in the Metaphysical Foundations; elucidate the relationship between its metaphysics of nature and Kant's critical philosophy; and describe the historical context for Kant's account of natural science. The volume will be an invaluable resource for understanding one of Kant's most difficult works, and will set the agenda for future scholarship on Kant's philosophy of science.

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Wilson, Alastair. The Nature of Contingency. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846215.001.0001.

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Contingency is everywhere, but what is it? This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and on cutting-edge metaphysics and philosophy of science, it argues that quantum theories are best understood as telling us about the space of genuine possibilities rather than as telling us solely about actuality. When quantum physics is taken seriously in the way first proposed by Hugh Everett III, it provides the resources for a new systematic metaphysical framework encompassing possibility, necessity, actuality, chance, counterfactuals, and a host of related modal notions. The framework is a modal realist one, in the tradition of David Lewis: all genuine possibilities are on a par, and the actual world is simply the one that we ourselves inhabit. It departs from Lewisian modal realism in that quantum possible worlds are not philosophical posits but scientific discoveries. Contingency and other modal notions have often been seen as beyond the limits of science. Rationalist metaphysicians argue that the metaphysics of modality is strictly prior to any scientific investigation: metaphysics establishes which worlds are possible, and physics merely checks which of these worlds is actual. Naturalistic metaphysicians respond that science may discover new possibilities and new impossibilities. This book’s quantum theory of contingency takes naturalistic metaphysics one step further, allowing that science may discover what it is to be possible. As electromagnetism revealed the nature of light, as acoustics revealed the nature of sound, as statistical mechanics revealed the nature of heat, so quantum physics reveals the nature of contingency.

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Proops, Ian. The Fiery Test of Critique. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199656042.001.0001.

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The book aims to provide a comprehensive study of the ‘Transcendental Dialectic’ of Kant’s first Critique. It argues that Kant conceives of ‘critique’ as a kind of winnowing exercise, aimed to separate the wheat of good metaphysics from the chaff of bad. However, he uses a less familiar metaphor to make this point, namely, that of ‘the fiery test of critique’. This turns out to be, not a medieval ordeal (a trial by fire), but rather a metallurgical assay: so-called ‘cupellation’—a procedure in which ore samples are tested for their precious-metal content. The upshot is that critique has a positive, investigatory side: it seeks not merely to eliminate the dross of bad ‘dogmatic’ metaphysics but also to uncover any hidden nuggets of value that might be contained in traditional speculative metaphysics. There are both gold and silver to be found. The gold is the indirect proof of Transcendental Idealism afforded by the resolution of the Antinomies, the silver Kant’s defence of theoretically grounded ‘doctrinal beliefs’ in a wise and great originator and in an afterlife. In the course of making these points, the book engages with Kant’s views on a number of central problems in philosophy and meta-philosophy, including: the explanation of the enduring human impulse towards metaphysics, correct philosophical method, the limits of self-knowledge, the possibility of human freedom, the resolution of metaphysical paradox (‘Antinomy’), the justification of faith, the nature of scepticism, and the role of ‘as if’ reasoning in natural science.

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