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Jessica Leech, Thinking of Necessity: A Kantian Account of Modal Thought and Modal Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2023, 272, $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198873969.
Reviewed by Uygar Abaci, Penn State University
There has been a wave of interest in Kant’s views on modality over the last two decades. This wave has produced at least half a dozen doctoral dissertations that I know of, a plethora of journal articles, and two books, Nicholas Stang’s Kant’s Modal Metaphysics (2016, OUP) and my Kant’s Revolutionary Theory of Modality (2019, OUP). It is crucial to get one thing straight right off the bat: despite one’s likely initial expectation based on its title alone, Jessica Leech’s book is not quite part of this wave, nor does it present itself as such. To a reflective eye, the title refers to a “Kantian”, and not “Kant’s”, account of modality, thereby subtly distancing itself from this more familiar, rather reconstructive and historical kind of…
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