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Kantian Modality vis-à-vis Neo-Aristotelian Modality

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The paper discusses Jessica Leech's Modal Transcendentalism. In particular, it engages critically with the claim that her Objective Necessity, of Kantian inspiration, in being the strictest real necessity, earns the title of Metaphysical Necessity. I argue that a Neo-Aristotelian Modality better deserves that title, but that this discussion is ultimately a distraction, with the danger of making us see these two modalities as competitors of one another. They are not, and the theoretical benefits afforded by endorsing them both are to be explored.
Source: Inquiry
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4416673961
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