Author: R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415038058
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Metaphysics and its foundations I
Author: R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415038058
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415038058
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Metaphysics and its foundations II
Author: R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415038065
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415038065
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Discourse on Metaphysics
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Discourse on Metaphysics
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Leibniz's Naturalized Philosophy of Mind
Author: Larry M. Jorgensen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191023973
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Larry M. Jorgensen provides a systematic reappraisal of Leibniz's philosophy of mind, revealing the full metaphysical background that allowed Leibniz to see farther than most of his contemporaries. In recent philosophy much effort has been put into discovering a naturalized theory of mind. Leibniz's efforts to reach a similar goal three hundred years earlier offer a critical stance from which we can assess our own theories. But while the goals might be similar, the content of Leibniz's theory significantly diverges from that of today's thought. Perhaps surprisingly, Leibniz's theological commitments yielded a thoroughgoing naturalizing methodology: the properties of an object are explicable in terms of the object's nature. Larry M. Jorgensen shows how this methodology led Leibniz to a fully natural theory of mind.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191023973
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Larry M. Jorgensen provides a systematic reappraisal of Leibniz's philosophy of mind, revealing the full metaphysical background that allowed Leibniz to see farther than most of his contemporaries. In recent philosophy much effort has been put into discovering a naturalized theory of mind. Leibniz's efforts to reach a similar goal three hundred years earlier offer a critical stance from which we can assess our own theories. But while the goals might be similar, the content of Leibniz's theory significantly diverges from that of today's thought. Perhaps surprisingly, Leibniz's theological commitments yielded a thoroughgoing naturalizing methodology: the properties of an object are explicable in terms of the object's nature. Larry M. Jorgensen shows how this methodology led Leibniz to a fully natural theory of mind.
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
Author: Matthew Stewart
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393071049
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
"Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business—and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as “the atheist Jew.” As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as “God’s attorney.” In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century—and continues today.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393071049
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
"Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business—and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as “the atheist Jew.” As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as “God’s attorney.” In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century—and continues today.
Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature
Author: Donald Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521597371
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This major contribution to Leibniz scholarship will prove invaluable to historians of philosophy, theology, and science.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521597371
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This major contribution to Leibniz scholarship will prove invaluable to historians of philosophy, theology, and science.
The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?
Author: Marcelo Dascal
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402086687
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was an outstanding contributor to many fields of human knowledge. The historiography of philosophy has tagged him as a “rationalist”. But what does this exactly mean? Is he a “rationalist” in the same sense in Mathematics and Politics, in Physics and Jurisprudence, in Metaphysics and Theology, in Logic and Linguistics, in Technology and Medicine, in Epistemology and Ethics? What are the most significant features of his “rationalism”, whatever it is? For the first time an outstanding group of Leibniz researchers, some acknowledged as leading scholars, others in the beginning of a promising career, who specialize in the most significant areas of Leibniz’s contributions to human thought and action, were requested to spell out the nature of his rationalism in each of these areas, with a view to provide a comprehensive picture of what it amounts to, both in its general drive and in its specific features and eventual inner tensions. The chapters of the book are the result of intense discussion in the course of an international conference focused on the title question of this book, and were selected in view of their contribution to this topic. They are clustered in thematically organized parts. No effort has been made to hide the controversies underlying the different interpretations of Leibniz’s “rationalism” – in each particular domain and as a whole. On the contrary, the editor firmly believes that only through a variety of conflicting interpretive perspectives can the multi-faceted nature of an oeuvre of such a magnitude and variety as Leibniz’s be brought to light and understood as it deserves.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402086687
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was an outstanding contributor to many fields of human knowledge. The historiography of philosophy has tagged him as a “rationalist”. But what does this exactly mean? Is he a “rationalist” in the same sense in Mathematics and Politics, in Physics and Jurisprudence, in Metaphysics and Theology, in Logic and Linguistics, in Technology and Medicine, in Epistemology and Ethics? What are the most significant features of his “rationalism”, whatever it is? For the first time an outstanding group of Leibniz researchers, some acknowledged as leading scholars, others in the beginning of a promising career, who specialize in the most significant areas of Leibniz’s contributions to human thought and action, were requested to spell out the nature of his rationalism in each of these areas, with a view to provide a comprehensive picture of what it amounts to, both in its general drive and in its specific features and eventual inner tensions. The chapters of the book are the result of intense discussion in the course of an international conference focused on the title question of this book, and were selected in view of their contribution to this topic. They are clustered in thematically organized parts. No effort has been made to hide the controversies underlying the different interpretations of Leibniz’s “rationalism” – in each particular domain and as a whole. On the contrary, the editor firmly believes that only through a variety of conflicting interpretive perspectives can the multi-faceted nature of an oeuvre of such a magnitude and variety as Leibniz’s be brought to light and understood as it deserves.
Geometry and Monadology
Author: Vincenzo de Risi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3764379863
Category : Science
Languages : la
Pages : 676
Book Description
This book reconstructs, from both historical and theoretical points of view, Leibniz’s geometrical studies, focusing in particular on the research Leibniz carried out in his final years. The work’s main purpose is to offer a better understanding of the philosophy of space and in general of the mature Leibnizean metaphysics. This is the first ever, comprehensive historical reconstruction of Leibniz’s geometry.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3764379863
Category : Science
Languages : la
Pages : 676
Book Description
This book reconstructs, from both historical and theoretical points of view, Leibniz’s geometrical studies, focusing in particular on the research Leibniz carried out in his final years. The work’s main purpose is to offer a better understanding of the philosophy of space and in general of the mature Leibnizean metaphysics. This is the first ever, comprehensive historical reconstruction of Leibniz’s geometry.