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    Nicholas Stang

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    Nicholas Stang is a contemporary philosopher specializing in Kant, early modern philosophy, and metaphysics. He is known for his detailed reconstructions of Kantian arguments concerning modality, existence, and transcendental idealism, and serves as a professor at the University of Toronto.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Authored Kant's Modal Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2016)

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    Advanced interpretive debates on Kant's transcendental idealism and non-spatiality thesis

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    Contributed to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Kant's transcendental idealism

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    Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto

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    Published widely on the relationship between Kant and post-Kantian metaphysics

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

    Modality & Possibility

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

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