Book ID: CBB000036284

Leibnizian inquiries: A group of essays (1989)

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Rescher, Nicholas (Editor)


University Press of America


Publication Date: 1989
Physical Details: 188 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Earman, John: Leibniz and the absolute vs. relational dispute. Hartz, Glenn: Leibniz on why Descartes metaphysics of body is necessarily false. Grosholz, Emily: Leibniz' formalist realism and an early problem in the theory of science. Françoise Duchesneau: The principle of indiscernibles and Leibniz' theory of science. Frankel, Lois: Causation, harmony, and analogy. Kovach, Francis J.: Action at a distance in the cosmology and the metaphysics of Leibniz. Majer, Ulrich: Leibniz' conception of a physical system as an essential part of his theory of life. Gale, George: Physics, metaphysics, and natures: Leibniz' later aristotelianism. Mainzer, Klaus: Metaphysics of nature and mathematics in the philosophy of Leibniz. McCullough, Larry: Illness, disease, and the expression of the body by the mind: A preliminary sketch of Leibniz' philosophy of medicine. Leslie, John: The Leibnizian richness of our universe. Lenzen, Wolfgang: Arithmetical vs. `real' additon: A case study of the relation between logic, mathematics and metaphysics in Leibniz. Wilson, Catherine: The combinatorial universe: Scientific language and metaphysics in Leibniz. Burkhardt, Hans: Whole and part in Leibniz' metaphysics.


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Authors & Contributors
Boeder, Heribert
Börnsen, Hans
Courtine, Jean-François
Drago, Antonino
Evers, M.
Hecht, Hartmut
Journals
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
Études Philosophiques
Environmental Ethics
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Klett-Cotta
Olschki
Routledge
Steiner
Verlag Freies Geistesleben
Concepts
Science
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Matter theory
People
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Descartes, René
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite
Clarke, Samuel
Conway, Anne
Time Periods
17th century
Places
British Isles
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