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The Actual and the Possible MIND ASSOCIATION OCCASIONAL SERIES Thisseriesconsistsofcarefullyselectedvolumesofsignificantoriginalpapersonpredefined themes,normallygrowingoutofaconferencesupportedbyaMindAssociationMajor ConferenceGrant.TheAssociationnominatesaneditororeditorsforeachcollection,and maycooperatewithotherbodiesinpromotingconferencesorotherscholarlyactivities inconnectionwiththepreparationofparticularvolumes. 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Contents Acknowledgements vii NoteontheContributors ix Editor’sIntroduction 1 1. AspectsofSpinoza’sTheoryofEssence:FormalEssence, Non-Existence,andTwoTypesofActuality 11 MogensLærke 2. Wolff’sCloseShavewithFatalism 45 StephanLeuenberger 3. ModalAdventuresbetweenLeibnizandKant:Existence and(Temporal,Logical,Real)Possibilities 64 OhadNachtomy 4. Kant’sMaterialConditionofRealPossibility 94 JessicaLeech 5. Hegel’sExpressivistModalRealism 117 ChristopherYeomans 6. RussellonModality 136 ThomasBaldwin 7. ModalityandDegreesofTruth:AnAustro-PolishSideline inTwentieth-CenturyModalThought 170 PeterSimons 8. Heideggeron‘Possibility’ 186 MarkSinclair 9. DeReModalityintheLateTwentiethCentury:ThePrescientQuine 217 JohnDivers Index 237 Acknowledgements MythanksareduetoJamesClarkewhoorganizedwithmethe2013BritishSociety fortheHistoryofPhilosophyannualconferenceattheUniversityofYork,andtothe then President of the Society, Pauline Phemister, who offered insightful guidance throughout.MythanksarealsoduetotheMindAssociationfortheawardofaMajor ConferenceGrant. MWS Note on the Contributors THOMASBALDWINisEmeritusProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofYorkand former editor of Mind. His recent work includes G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings, ‘G. E. Moore and the Cambridge School of Analysis’ and ‘Truth: British IdealismanditsAnalyticCritics’. JOHN DIVERS, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds, is the author of variousarticlesonmodality(inMind,Noûs,PhilosophyandPhenomenologicalResearch, etc.),PossibleWorlds(Routledge,2002)andNecessityAfterQuine(contractedtoOUP). MOGENS LÆRKE isSeniorResearcherattheCNRSinFrance,affiliatedattheENSde Lyon.HeistheauthorofLeibnizlecteurdeSpinoza(Paris,2008)andLesLumièresde Leibniz (Paris, 2015), of more than fifty articles principally on early modern phil- osophy, and has edited five volumes including Philosophy and Its History (Oxford UniversityPress,2013). JESSICA LEECH is Lecturer of Philosophy at King’s College London. She gained her doctorate from the Universities of Geneva and Sheffield. She works mainly on the philosophyofmodalityandKant’stheoreticalphilosophy. STEPHANLEUENBERGERisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofGlasgow. He gained his PhD at Princeton, and received the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics YoungerScholarPrize(2006)andtheLauenerPrize(2009).Hehaspublishedmainly onthetopicsofmodalityandsupervenience. OHAD NACHTOMY isAssociateProfessorandChairatBar-IlanUniversity.Heisthe author of Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz’s Metaphysics (Springer, 2007);theeditor(withJustinSmith)ofTheLifeSciencesinEarlyModernPhilosophy (OxfordUniversityPress,2014)andMachinesofNatureandCorporealSubstancesin Leibniz(Springer,2010);andhaspublishedsomefortyarticlesinthehistoryofearly modernphilosophyandthephilosophyofbiology. PETER SIMONS isEmeritusProfessorofPhilosophyatTrinityCollegeDublinandis Honorary Professor at the University of Salzburg. He is the author of two books and over two hundred articles, and specializes in metaphysics, the history of logic, and central European (Polish and Austrian) nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy. MARK SINCLAIR is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and AssociateEditorattheBritishJournalfortheHistoryofPhilosophy.Hehaspublished
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