Nicholas Jolley (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz

Herausgeber: Jolley, Nicholas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a further volume in a series of companions to major philosophers. Each volume contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation that readers may feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 982g
• ISBN-13: 9780521365888
• ISBN-10: 0521365880
• Artikelnr.: 22309877

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Nicholas Jolley
2. G. W. Leibniz, life and works Roger Ariew
3. The seventeenth-century intellectual background Stuart Brown
4. Metaphysics: the early period to the Discourse on Metaphysics Christia Mercer and R. C. Sleigh Jr
5. Metaphysics: the late period Donald Rutherford
6. The theory of knowledge Robert McRae
7. Philosophy and logic G. H. R. Parkinson
8. Philosophy and Language in Leibniz Donald Rutherford
9. Leibniz: physics and philosophy Daniel Garber
10. Leibniz's ontological and cosmological arguments David Blumenfeld
11. Perfection and happiness in the best possible world David Blumenfeld
12. Leibniz's moral philosophy Gregory Brown
13. The reception of Leibniz in the eighteenth century Catherine Wilson.