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Expanded ed. |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 406 pages) : ) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface; Chapter 1. Leibniz on Possible Worlds; Chapter 2. Contingentia Mundi: Leibniz on the World's Contingency; Chapter 3. Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations; Chapter 4. Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks; Chapter 5. Leibniz and the Concept of a System; Chapter 6. Leibniz and Issues of Eternal Recurrence; Chapter 7. Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and Rational Mechanics; Chapter 8. Leibniz and the World's Improvability; Chapter 9. The Epistemology of Inductive Reasoning in Leibniz; Chapter 10. Leibniz, Keynes, and the Rabbis; Chapter 11. Leibniz and Socialized Medicine |
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Chapter 12. The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's MetaphysicsChapter 13. Leibniz Finds a Niche (1676-1677); Chapter 14. Leibniz Visits Vienna (1712-1714); Chapter 15. Leibniz Crosses the Atlantic; Chapter 16. Leibniz and American Philosophy; Chapter 17. Leibniz and Cryptography; Chapter 18. Leibniz's Machina Deciphratoria: A Seventeenth-Century Proto-Enigma Machine; Chapter 19. Process Philosophy and Monadological Metaphysics; Chapter 20. Was Leibniz Ennobled?; Chapter 21. Leibniz Disillusioned: Parting Ways from J. D. Crafft; Postscript; Name Index |
| Summary |
Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as "the most intelligent human being who has ever lived." The German philosopher, mathematician, and logician invented calculus (independently of Sir Isaac Newton), topology, determinants, binary arithmetic, symbolic logic, rational mechanics, and much more. His metaphysics bequeathed a set of problems and approaches that have influenced the course of Western philosophy from Kant in the eighteenth century until the present day.On Leibniz examines many aspects of Leibniz's work and life. This expanded e. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: 0822962187 9780822962182 |
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9780822978145 (electronic book) |
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0822978148 (electronic book) |
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9780822962182 |
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0822962187 |
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