...Louis deRosset A major source of latter-day skepticism about necessity is the work of David Hume. Hume is widely taken to have endorsed the Humean claim : there are no necessary connections between distinct existences. The Humean claim is defended on the grounds that necessary connections between...

...Patrick Mayer James Harris, Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 264 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Aaron V. Garrett, Meaning in Spinoza’s Method...

...Don Garrett Griffin Michael V. , Leibniz, God, and Necessity . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . xi +195 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 “Metaphysics,” Leibniz declared, “is natural theology.” In his illuminating new book, Michael Griffin builds...

...Yitzhak Y. Melamed Garrett Don , Nature and Necessity in Spinoza’s Philosophy . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xiv + 533 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 The publication of Garrett’s Nature and Necessity in Spinoza’s Philosophy is a major event...

... alternatives. Killing, it turns out, is much harder to justify than we might otherwise have thought. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 necessity necessity in war necessity condition necessity principle ethics of killing defensive killing liability to defensive harm Consider the following...

...Delia Belleri deliabelleri@gmail.com Thomasson Amie L. , Norms and Necessity . New York : Oxford University Press , 2020 252 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 Amie Thomasson’s latest monograph, Norms and Necessity , defends a normativist position about...

... forms of the understanding are really possible, while Necessity denies this. This alternative taxonomy offers a helpful framework for understanding an objection that goes back at least to Hegel: that Kant’s idealism threatens to collapse into a form of subjective idealism that precisely fails to rule...

...Nathan Salmon The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 4 (October 2002) Demonstrating and Necessity Nathan Salmon 1. My title is meant to suggest a continuation of the sort of philosophical investigation...

...John MacFarlane Colin McGinn, Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 114. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS If the complement clause ascribes a first-person content, it expresses...

...David O. Brink MAKING A NECESSITY OF VIRTUE: ARISTOTLE AND KANT ON VIRTUE. By Nancy Sherman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 387. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVLEWS because expressions of virtue must be voluntary (107), and Aristotle says that common use results...

...Alexander W. Kocurek A counteridentical is a counterfactual with an identity statement in the antecedent. While counteridenticals generally seem nontrivial, most semantic theories for counterfactuals, when combined with the necessity of identity and distinctness, attribute vacuous truth conditions...

... theory in detail, showing how, on his account, God’s ideas provide both truth-makers for possibilities and necessities and an ontological foothold for those truth-makers, thereby explaining modal truths. Along the way, it suggests several refinements and possible amendments to Leibniz’s grounding thesis...

... and necessity. Two central Kantian principles provide the starting point for the comparison: that the possible must be grounded in the actual and that existence is not a real predicate. Both are shown to be intimately connected to the Barcan formulas, and Kant’s views on what he distinguishes as three different...

... in those elements in accordance with the mapping. We might gloss the idea that there are no brute necessities with the following schema, whose instances are those in which A is a logically consistent sentence: No Brute Necessities ◊ A In order for this to be at all plausible, we must again...

... for the necessity of laws), the relationship between laws and objective chances, and the nature of instantaneous velocity and acceleration. The latter, argues Lange, are best understood in terms of certain subjunctive facts. This, in turn, is one advantage of what might otherwise seem to be a disadvantage, the fact...

... of the connection between epistemic and metaphysical necessity that is claimed to hold by the modal rationalist must be somewhat more complicated. To see how to complicate the story and develop a more accurate characterization of the alleged connection between epistemic and meta- physical necessity...

... University of California, San Diego Philosophical Review, Vol. 118, No. 2, 2009 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2008-044 James Harris, Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 264 pp. Of Liberty and Necessity...

... University of California, San Diego Philosophical Review, Vol. 118, No. 2, 2009 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2008-044 James Harris, Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 264 pp. Of Liberty and Necessity...

... University of California, San Diego Philosophical Review, Vol. 118, No. 2, 2009 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2008-044 James Harris, Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 264 pp. Of Liberty and Necessity...

... University of California, San Diego Philosophical Review, Vol. 118, No. 2, 2009 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2008-044 James Harris, Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 264 pp. Of Liberty and Necessity...