By focusing on a selection of Leibniz's work that covers significant historical breadth, Mormino effectively makes available to readers a new perspective on the evolution of Leibniz's thinking and the debt he owes to Hobbes's
necessitarianism.
In particular, we will focus on the following infelicities: his acceptance of demographic
necessitarianism, his mischaracterizations of Aboriginal nationalism, his critique of Aboriginal rights claims, and his failed attempt to resurrect the concept of citizens plus.
Some contemporary philosophers argue that the PSR entails
necessitarianism and thus conflicts with the intuition that things could have been otherwise.
The heart of the defense of Leibniz's
necessitarianism lies in the second part.
As an expression of "ultimate religious mystery" based on the poet's recognition "that
necessitarianism explained nothing in the ultimate sense," "The Rime," for Boulger, discloses "the uneasy Christian skepticism that has been with us since Newton and Kant" (Boulger 444, 451; my emphasis).
Al-Ghazali upholds the contingency of the world against the
necessitarianism of Avicenna.
The book begins with metaphysical themes, including discussions of the basics of Spinoza's ontology, specific details of his monism, and an affirmation of his
necessitarianism.
Confronting the threat of a Spinozistic
necessitarianism, Leibniz insists that not all possible substances are compossible--that they can't all be instantiated together--and thus that not all possible worlds are compossible--that they can't all be instantiated together.
So far as I can see, at this point there are two possible avenues to take as regards contingent intrinsic predication, once both simplicity and truthmaker
necessitarianism are countenanced: (a) maintain that apparently intrinsic, contingently true predications are actually extrinsic, or (b) maintain the intrinsicality of contingently true predications while denying that this poses a problem for the contingency of certain predications.
Against recent arguments to the contrary, the paper maintains that this is the case even given
necessitarianism about natural laws (Wilson 2005).
Armstrong has defended a version of truthmaker
necessitarianism, the doctrine that truths necessitate truthmakers.
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Necessitarianism and the Importance of Being Intuitive, DANIEL Z.
