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The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030016114X
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy written by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first unabridged English translation of the correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl detailing their opposing philosophies The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G. W. Leibniz and G. E. Stahl, a chemist and physician at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, known as the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, is one of the most important intellectual contributions on theoretical issues concerning pre-biological thinking. Editors François Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith offer readers the first fully annotated English translation of this fascinating exchange of philosophical views on divine action, the order of nature, causality and teleology, and the soul-body relationship.

Divine Machines

Author : Justin E. H. Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691141789
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Divine Machines written by Justin E. H. Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "His book provides a comprehensive survey of G. W. Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the sciences of life, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleontology. It is shown that these sundry interests were not only relevant to his core philosophical interests, but indeed often provided the insights that in part led to some of his most familiar philosophical doctrines, including the theory of corporeal substance and the theory of organic preformation"--Provided by publisher.

The Practice of Reason

Author : Marcelo Dascal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027288674
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Reason written by Marcelo Dascal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) dedicated much of his life to some of the most central debates of his time. For him, our chance of progress towards the happiness of mankind lies in the capacity to recognize the value of the different perspectives through which humans approach the world. Controversies supply the opportunity to exercise this capacity by approaching the opponent not as an adversary but as someone from whose point of view we can enrich our own viewpoint and improve our knowledge. This approach inspired the creation of this series. The book – the first in the series devoted to Leibniz – presents his views through actual controversies in which he participated, in several domains. Leibniz’s original ‘theory of controversies’ thus appears not only as what the thinker thinks about how one should use reason in a controversy, but also how he puts in practice the kind of rationality he preaches.

Leibniz

Author : Michael Hooker
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816610231
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz written by Michael Hooker and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leibniz was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The past fifteen years have witnessed a renaissance in the study of the history of philosophy, with special attention devoted to the seventeenth century and the work of Descartes and Leibniz. The essays in this collection open new pathways to the study of Leibniz, and will be welcomed not only by historians of philosophy but also by those contemporary philosophers who use logic and the philosophy of language to address metaphysical questions — since Leibniz was the first philosopher to do just that.

History of Universities

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199227489
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book History of Universities written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XXII/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

Vegetative Powers

Author : Fabrizio Baldassarri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030697096
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Vegetative Powers written by Fabrizio Baldassarri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies, sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature, and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical interpretations.

Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

Author : Julia Weckend
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351595474
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact written by Julia Weckend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tells the story of the legacy and impact of the great German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Leibniz made significant contributions to many areas, including philosophy, mathematics, political and social theory, theology, and various sciences. The essays in this volume explores the effects of Leibniz’s profound insights on subsequent generations of thinkers by tracing the ways in which his ideas have been defended and developed in the three centuries since his death. Each of the 11 essays is concerned with Leibniz’s legacy and impact in a particular area, and between them they show not just the depth of Leibniz’s talents but also the extent to which he shaped the various domains to which he contributed, and in some cases continues to shape them today. With essays written by experts such as Nicholas Jolley, Pauline Phemister, and Philip Beeley, this volume is essential reading not just for students of Leibniz but also for those who wish to understand the game-changing impact made by one of history’s true universal geniuses.

The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Ohad Nachtomy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199987319
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy written by Ohad Nachtomy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant. The contributions to this volume are organized in accordance with the particular problems that living beings and living nature posed for early modern philosophy: the problem of life in general, whether it constitutes something ontologically distinct at all, or whether it can ultimately be exhaustively comprehended "in the same manner as the rest"; the problem of the structure of living beings, by which we understand not just bare anatomy but also physiological processes such as irritability, motion, digestion, and so on; the problem of generation, which might be included alongside digestion and other vital processes, were it not for the fact that it presented such an exceptional riddle to philosophers since antiquity, namely, the riddle of coming-into-being out of -- apparent or real -- non-being; and, finally, the problem of natural order.

Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment

Author : Peter H. Reill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520931009
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment by : Peter H. Reill

Download or read book Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment written by Peter H. Reill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This far-reaching study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and boldly reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter Hanns Reill argues that in the middle of the eighteenth century, a major shift occurred in the way Enlightenment thinkers conceived of nature that caused many of them to reject the prevailing doctrine of mechanism and turn to a vitalistic model to account for phenomena in natural history, the life sciences, and chemistry. As he traces the ramifications of this new way of thinking through time and across disciplines, Reill provocatively complicates our understanding of the way key Enlightenment thinkers viewed nature. His sophisticated analysis ultimately questions postmodern narratives that have assumed a monolithic Enlightenment—characterized by the dominance of instrumental reason—that has led to many of the disasters of modern life.

Bibliography on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. 17th to the 19th Century

Author : Valentin Wehefritz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110974207
Total Pages : 1784 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Bibliography on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. 17th to the 19th Century written by Valentin Wehefritz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 1784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leibniz's Monadology

Author : Lloyd Strickland
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748693246
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz's Monadology written by Lloyd Strickland and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity

Author : Richard T. W. Arthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192849077
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity written by Richard T. W. Arthur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance. Leibniz's views on relativity have been extremely influential, first on Mach, and then on Einstein, while his novel approach to geometry in his analysis situs inspired many later developments in geometry. Arthur expounds the latter in some detail, explaining its relationship to Leibniz's metaphysics of space and the grounding of motion, and defending Leibniz's views on the relativity of motion against charges of inconsistency. The brilliance of his work on time, though, has not been so well appreciated, and Arthur attempts to remedy this through a detailed discussion of Leibniz's relational theory of time, showing how it underpins his theory of possible worlds, his complex account of contingency, and his highly original treatment of the continuity of time, providing formal treatments in an appendix. In other appendices, Arthur provides translations of previously untranslated writings by Leibniz on analysis situs and on Copernicanism, as well as an essay on Leibniz's philosophy of relations. In his introductory chapter he explains how the framework for the book is provided by the interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics he defended in his earlier Monads, Composition, and Force (OUP 2018, winner of the 2019 annual JHP Book Prize for best book in the history of philosophy published in 2018).

Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy

Author : Charles T. Wolfe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031070364
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy written by Charles T. Wolfe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It is of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories.

An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

Author : David W. Bates
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226832104
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence written by David W. Bates and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What would it mean to make a decision against the acceleration of automation and for humanity? In An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence, David W. Bates lays the groundwork for such a decision by rethinking the history of human cognition and its entanglements with technology. Tracing evolving lines of thought from the early modern period to the present, Bates confronts the intimate connection between autonomy and automaticity in how we have understood the capacities of the human mind. At the heart of this entanglement is a total mechanistic understanding of nature that began in the seventeenth century and saw the body as machine, the nervous system as control mechanism, and the brain as the center of cognition. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing, Bates reveals how new ideas and experiences reconfigured the ways in which the automaticity of the body could be linked with technical systems, while at the same time the mind could still create the space for autonomy. The result is a new theorization of the human in which the human, dependent on technology, produces itself as an artificial automation that has no "natural" origin"--

Leibniz on Causation and Agency

Author : Julia Jorati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107192676
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz on Causation and Agency written by Julia Jorati and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and thorough exploration of Leibniz's often controversial theories, including his thought on teleology, contingency, freedom, and moral responsibility.

The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy

Author : Manja Kisner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303084160X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy written by Manja Kisner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy. Its aim is to offer a comprehensive historical overview of the concept of drive at the turn of the 19th century and to discuss it both historically and systematically. From the 18th century onward, the concept of drive started to play an important role in emerging disciplines such as biology, anthropology, and psychology. In these fields, the concept of drive was used to describe the inner forces of organic nature, or, more particularly, human urges and desires. But it was in the period of classical German philosophy that this concept developed into an important philosophical concept crucial to Kant’s and post-Kantian idealistic systems. Reflecting the complexity of this concept, the volume first discusses historical sources of drive theories in Leibniz, Reimarus, and Blumenbach. Afterwards, the volume presents the philosophical accounts of drives in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and also gives a systematic overview of other important drive theories that were formed around 1800 by Herder, Goethe, Jacobi, Novalis, Reinhold, Schiller, and Schopenhauer.

Historical Dictionary of Leibniz's Philosophy

Author : Stuart C. Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538178451
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Leibniz's Philosophy written by Stuart C. Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of Leibniz's Philosophy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on Leibniz’s philosophy, written work, teachers, contemporaries, and philosophers influenced by him.