The Cambridge companion to Leibniz / edited by Nicholas Jolley.

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193
Title
The Cambridge companion to Leibniz / edited by Nicholas Jolley.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 500 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge companions to philosophy
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Contents
G.W. Leibniz, life and works / Roger Ariew -- The seventeenth-century intellectual background / Stuart Brown -- Metaphysics : the early period to the Discourse on metaphysics / Christia Mercer and R.C. Sleigh, Jr. -- Metaphysics : the late period / Donald Rutherford -- The theory of knowledge / Robert McRae -- Philosophy and logic / G.H.R. Parkinson -- Philosophy and language in Leibniz / Donald Rutherford -- Leibniz : physics and philosophy / Daniel Garber -- Leibniz's ontological and cosmological arguments ; Perfection and happiness in the best possible world / David Blumenfeld -- Leibniz's moral philosophy / Gregory Brown -- The reception of Leibniz in the eighteenth century / Catherine Wilson.
Summary
Gottfried Leibniz was a remarkable thinker who made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern mathematics and science. At the centre of Leibniz's philosophy stands his metaphysics, an ambitious attempt to discover the nature of reality through the use of unaided reason. This volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought, exploring the metaphysics in detail and showing its subtle and complex relationship to his views on logic, language, physics, and theology. Other chapters examine the intellectual context of his thought and its reception in the eighteenth century. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most accessible and comprehensive guide to Leibniz currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Leibniz.
Added Author
Jolley, Nicholas, editor.
Subject
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
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Summary
Gottfried Leibniz was a remarkable thinker who made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern mathematics and science. At the centre of Leibniz's philosophy stands his metaphysics, an ambitious attempt to discover the nature of reality through the use of unaided reason. This volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought, exploring the metaphysics in detail and showing its subtle and complex relationship to his views on logic, language, physics, and theology. Other chapters examine the intellectual context of his thought and its reception in the eighteenth century. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most accessible and comprehensive guide to Leibniz currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Leibniz.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Contents
G.W. Leibniz, life and works / Roger Ariew -- The seventeenth-century intellectual background / Stuart Brown -- Metaphysics : the early period to the Discourse on metaphysics / Christia Mercer and R.C. Sleigh, Jr. -- Metaphysics : the late period / Donald Rutherford -- The theory of knowledge / Robert McRae -- Philosophy and logic / G.H.R. Parkinson -- Philosophy and language in Leibniz / Donald Rutherford -- Leibniz : physics and philosophy / Daniel Garber -- Leibniz's ontological and cosmological arguments ; Perfection and happiness in the best possible world / David Blumenfeld -- Leibniz's moral philosophy / Gregory Brown -- The reception of Leibniz in the eighteenth century / Catherine Wilson.
Subject
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
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