Leibniz
Title | Leibniz PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Garber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Monadology |
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Leibniz
Title | Leibniz PDF eBook |
Author | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Metaphysics |
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The Monadology
Title | The Monadology PDF eBook |
Author | Gottfried Wilhelm Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2018-03-13 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781986704465 |
The Monadology (French: La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. In it, he offers a new solution to mind and matter interaction by means of a pre-established harmony expressed as the 'Best of all possible worlds' form of optimism.
Leibniz's Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms
Title | Leibniz's Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Nita |
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Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
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ISBN | 9789401799577 |
This anthology is about the signal change in Leibniz's metaphysics with his explicit adoption of substantial forms in 1678-79. This change can either be seen as a moment of discontinuity with his metaphysics of maturity or as a moment of continuity, such as a passage to the metaphysics from his last years. Between the end of his sejour at Paris (November 1676) and the first part of the Hanover period, Leibniz reformed his dynamics and began to use the theory of corporeal substance. This book explores a very important part of the philosophical work of the young Leibniz. Expertise from around the globe is collated here, including Daniel Garber's work based on the recent publication of Leibniz's correspondence from the late 1690s, examining how the theory of monads developed during these crucial years. Richard Arthur argues that the introduction of substantial forms, reinterpreted as enduring primitive forces of action in each corporeal substance, allows Leibniz to found the reality of the phenomena of motion in force, and thus avoid reducing motion to a mere appearance. Amongst other themes covered in this book, Pauline Phemister's paper investigates Leibniz's views on animals and plants, highlighting changes, modifications and elaborations over time of Leibniz's views and supporting arguments and paying particular attention to his claim that the future is already contained in the seeds of living things. The editor, Adrian Nita, contributes a paper on the continuity or discontinuity of Leibniz's work on the question of the unity and identity of substance from the perspective of the relation with soul (anima) and mind (mens).
Leibniz
Title | Leibniz PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Garber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Monadology |
ISBN | 9780191722035 |
Daniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances. Tracing the development of Leibniz's thought, Garber shows how dealing with problems about the physical world lead him to a world of animate creatures, and to a world of monads.
Leibniz's Naturalized Philosophy of Mind
Title | Leibniz's Naturalized Philosophy of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Larry M. Jorgensen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2019-02-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191023973 |
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.
Locke and Leibniz on Substance
Title | Locke and Leibniz on Substance PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Lodge |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-02-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317648234 |
Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important interpretative issues concerning the role that the notion of substance plays in the work of Locke and Leibniz, and its intersection with other key issues, such as personal identity. Contributors also consider the relationship between the two philosophers and contemporaries such as Descartes and Hume.