The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Via Antiqua and Via Moderna in the Fifteenth Century: Doctrinal, Institutional, and Church Political Factors in the Wegestreit

Chapter 3 Ockham and Locke on Mental Language

Chapter 4 Metaphysics as a Discipline: From the “Transcendental Philosophy of the Ancients” to Kant’s Notion of Transcendental Philosophy

Chapter 5 God as First Principle and Metaphysics as a Science

Chapter 7 The Question of the Validity of Logic in Late Medieval Thought

Chapter 8 Uses of Philosophy in Reformation Thought: Melanchthon, Schegk, and Crellius

Chapter 9 Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: Auriol, Pomponazzi, and Luther on “Scholastic Subtleties”

Chapter 10 The Ontological Source of Logical Possibility in Catholic Second Scholasticism

Chapter 11 The Renaissance of Statistical Modalities in Early Modern Scholasticism

Chapter 12 Modal Logic in Germany at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Christoph Scheibler’s Opus Logicum

Chapter 13 Leibniz on Compossibility: Some Scholastic Sources