Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap The Story of Necessity

includes index and biblioraphy

Aristotle on the Necessity of the Consequence ................11 Aristotle on One-sided possibility .........29 Why does aristotle need a Modal Syllogistic .......50 Necessity, Possibility , and Determinism in stoic Thought ..........70 Necessity, in Avicenna and the Arabic Tradition .....................91 Modality without the prior analytics: Early twelfth century accounts of Modal Propositions ................113 Ockham and the foundations of Modality in the Fourteenth Century ........133 Theological and Scientific applications of the Notion of Necessity in the Mediaval and early modern periods .............154 Locke and the problem of Necessity in Early modern philosophy...174 Leibniz`s theories of Necessity ........194 Leibniz and the lucky proof.........218 Divine necessity and kant`s Modal Categories ...........232 Charles sanders peirce on Necessity ............256 The development of C I Lewis`s Philosophy of modal Logic .........279 Carnap`s Modal Predicate logic ............298