Book ID: CBB492069997

Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity (2022)

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Arthur, Richard T. W. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 432
Language: English

In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance. Leibniz's views on relativity have been extremely influential, first on Mach, and then on Einstein, while his novel approach to geometry in his analysis situs inspired many later developments in geometry. Arthur expounds the latter in some detail, explaining its relationship to Leibniz's metaphysics of space and the grounding of motion, and defending Leibniz's views on the relativity of motion against charges of inconsistency. The brilliance of his work on time, though, has not been so well appreciated, and Arthur attempts to remedy this through a detailed discussion of Leibniz's relational theory of time, showing how it underpins his theory of possible worlds, his complexaccount of contingency, and his highly original treatment of the continuity of time, providing formal treatments in an appendix. In other appendices, Arthur provides translations of previously untranslated writings by Leibniz on analysis situs and on Copernicanism, as well as an essay on Leibniz's philosophy of relations. In his introductory chapter he explains how the framework for the book is provided by the interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics he defended in his earlier Monads, Composition, and Force (OUP 2018, winner of the 2019 annual JHP Book Prize for best book in the history of philosophy published in 2018).

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Authors & Contributors
Garber, Daniel
Escribano-Cabeza, Miguel
Howard, Stephen
Ekeberg, Bjorn
Southgate, Henry Michael
Rossi, Paolo Aldo
Concepts
Metaphysics
Philosophy of science
Physics
Dynamics
Form (philosophy)
Forces
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18th century
20th century
19th century
16th century
15th century
Places
Germany
Institutions
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
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