Leibniz's Mill
Title | Leibniz's Mill PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Landesman |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Dualism |
ISBN | 9780268034115 |
Landesman claims that dualism must be preferred to materialism. The self cannot be reduced to the body, even although in some ways dependent on it.
Leibniz's Monadology
Title | Leibniz's Monadology PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd Strickland |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2014-09-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0748693238 |
Lloyd Strickland presents a new translation of the 'Monadology', alongside key parts of the 'Theodicy', and an in-depth, section-by-section commentary that explains in detail not just what Leibniz is saying in the text but also why he says it.
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.
Individuals, Minds and Bodies: Themes from Leibniz
Title | Individuals, Minds and Bodies: Themes from Leibniz PDF eBook |
Author | Massimiliano Carrara |
Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9783515083423 |
Is analytic metaphysics the kind of metaphysics that contemporary analytic philosophers study? One of the aims of this special issue of the Studia Leibnitiana is to demonstrate that it would be misleading to think so. The reason is simply that some important past metaphysicians also adopted an analytic style and G. W. Leibniz is surely one of them. His analysis on the notion of identity and individuality, on the difference between artifacts and biological entities are pieces of analytic metaphysics. The other aim of the volume is to show that there is a close semantic connection between the concepts of individual, mind and body in Leibniz. The book tried to demonstrate it from both an analytical and a historical point of view. .
Leibniz's Final System
Title | Leibniz's Final System PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn A. Hartz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2006-10-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1135989184 |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the central figures of seventeenth-century philosophy, and a huge intellectual figure in his age. This book from Glenn A. Hartz (editor of the influential Leibniz Review) is an advanced study of Leibniz's metaphysics. Hartz analyzes a very complicated topic, widely discussed in contemporary commentaries on Leibniz, namely the question of whether Leibniz was a metaphysical idealist, realist, or whether he tried to reconcile both trends in his mature philosophy. Because Leibniz is notoriously unclear about this, much has been written on the subject. In recent years, the debate has centered on whether it is possible to maintain compatibility between the two trends. In this controversial book, Hartz demonstrates that it is not possible to maintain compatibility of idealist and realist views - they must be understood as completely separate theories. As the first major work on realism in Leibniz's metaphysics, this key text will interest international Leibniz scholars, as well as students at the graduate level.
Leibniz
Title | Leibniz PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Jolley |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780415283380 |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was hailed as one of the supreme intellects of all time. A towering figure in seventeenth-century philosophy, his complex thought has been championed and satirized in equal measure, most famously in Voltaire's Candide. Jolley introduces Leibniz's theories of mind, knowledge, and innate ideas, showing how Leibniz anticipated the distinction between conscious and unconscious states, before examining his theory of free will and the problem of evil. An important feature of the book is its introduction to Leibniz's moral and political philosophy.
Interpretation
Title | Interpretation PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Machamer |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2014-01-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0822962802 |
The act of interpretation occurs in nearly every area of the arts and sciences. That ubiquity serves as the inspiration for the fourteen essays of this volume, covering many of the domains in which interpretive practices are found. Individual topics include: the general nature of interpretation and its forms; comparing and contrasting interpretation and hermeneutics; culture as interpretation seen through Hegel’s aesthetics; interpreting philosophical texts; methodologies for interpreting human action; interpretation in medical practice focusing on manifestations as indicators of disease; the brain and its interpretative, structured, learning and storage processes; interpreting hybrid wines and cognitive preconceptions of novel objects; and the importance of sensory perception as means of interpreting in the case of dry German Rieslings. In an interesting turn, Nicholas Rescher writes on the interpretation of philosophical texts. Then Catherine Wilson and Andreas Blank explicate and critique Rescher’s theories through analysis of the mill passage from Leibniz’s Monadology.