Being and Necessity

Being and Necessity advances a bold recovery and reformulation of classical metaphysics for a scientific age. Modern philosophy has long struggled with the problem of causality, modality, and the grounds of necessity. Hume reduced causality to mere habit and denied any rational access to necessary connections. Kant reinterpreted universality and necessity as conditions of human cognition rather than features of reality itself. Quine unsettled the analytic-synthetic distinction, and contempo...