Richard T W Arthur

Monads, Composition, and Force

Ariadnean Threads Through Leibniz's Labyrinth

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Produktbeschreibung

In this new work, Richard T. W. Arthur offers a fresh interpretation of Leibniz's theory of substance. He goes against a long trend of idealistic interpretations of Leibniz's thought by instead taking seriously Leibniz's claim of introducing monads to solve the problem of the composition of matter and motion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780198812869
• ISBN-10: 0198812868
• Artikelnr.: 52820532

Autorenporträt

Richard T. W. Arthur is a Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. He specializes in early modern natural philosophy and mathematics, with special attention to Leibniz, Newton, and Descartes. He is known primarily for his work on Leibniz, on whom he has written numerous articles and two books, G. W. Leibniz: The Labyrinth of the Continuum (Yale University Press, 2001), and Leibniz (Polity Press, 2014). His research interests also include the theory of the infinite, the epistemology of science, and the theory of time, on which he is finishing a book defending the reality of becoming in modern physics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Composition and division
2: Aggregation, body and substance
3: Atoms and souls
4: Forms and the Scholastic tradition
5: Motion, relativity and force
6: Passive force and corporeal substance
7: Continuance through time
Conclusion
Glossary of Scholastics and Atomists