The Jesuits and the anti-Jesuits: the two different connections of Leibniz...

Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...IN scholarship on Leibniz, there has long been a serious but generally...Cassirer would bring up the fact that Leibniz had already called attention to Chinese...reconciliation, a recent biographical writer of Leibniz would similarly do no more than mention...

Leibniz without physics.

The Review of Metaphysics;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......ESSAY IS ABOUT PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS in Leibniz and Aristotle. More generally, it concerns...by way of a review of Christia Mercer's Leibniz's Metaphysics: It's Origins and Development. (1) We thus begin with the question of Leibniz's intellectual development. What is the...

(book reviews)

The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...McCullough, Lawrence B. Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation: The...128.00--The focus of this book is Leibnizs first written work, the Disputatio...the label of modern that we attach to Leibniz's philosophy. In this work, McCullough...

(book review)

The Philosophical Review;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...LEIBNIZ AND THE RATIONAL ORDER OF NATURE. By DONALD RUTHERFORD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 301. In this comprehensive study of Leibniz's mature metaphysics, Donald Rutherford attempts to recover Leibniz's theodicy as an essential part of his philosophy (1). Although Rutherford ...

Leibniz's law

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;      7 words ...Leibniz's law See indiscernibility of identicals .

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

A Dictionary of Scientists;      566 words ...Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716) German mathematician...Lutheran professor of moral philosophy in Leipzig, Germany, Leibniz was educated at the universities of Leipzig, Jena, and...Robert Boyle, during two trips to London in 1673 and 1676, Leibniz was introduced to the outstanding problems ...

Blank, Andreas. Leibniz: Metaphilosophy and Metaphysics 1666-1686.(Book...

The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...BLANK, Andreas. Leibniz: Metaphilosophy and Metaphysics 1666-1686...derives its unity from its subject, which is Leibniz's early metaphysics, together with the author's reflections on the method Leibniz uses to produce that metaphysics. Thus...

Changing the Cartesian Mind: Leibniz on Sensation, Representation and...

The Philosophical Review;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...What did Leibniz have to contribute to the philosophy of mind? To...from textbooks in the philosophy of mind, and even Leibniz commentaries, the answer is: not much. That may be because Leibniz's philosophy of mind looks roughly like a Cartesian...

Determinismo e utilitarismo nella teodicea di Leibniz.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Determinismo e utilitarismo nella teodicea di Leibniz. Filosofia escienza nell'eta moderna...88-464-6316-1. In his examination of Leibniz's theodicy, Mormino does not seek to provide a general overview of Leibniz's thought. Instead, he seeks to delineate...

Dascal, Marcelo, editor and translator, with Quintin Racionero and Adelino...

The Review of Metaphysics;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......and Adelino Cardoso. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Art of Controversies. The New Synthese...year-long international research seminar on Leibniz, the Polemicist held at the Institute...chapters, newly translated or retranslated Leibnizan texts in which the philosopher pursues...

Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of Their Correspondence.(Review)

The Review of Metaphysics;  September 1, 2000 ;     687 words ...VAILATI, Ezio. Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of Their Correspondence. New...common in the history of philosophy to view the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence as essentially a debate between Leibniz and Newton. According to this view, Clarke was...

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Confessio Philosophi, Papers Concerning the...

The Review of Metaphysics;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm. Confessio Philosophi, Papers Concerning...Cloth, $85.00--This long awaited third volume of the Yale Leibniz Series contains an English translation (with original Latin text on opposing pages) of several important papers Leibniz wrote early in his philosophical career (1671-1675) ...

Selecting a phenomenalism: Leibniz, Berkeley, and the science of...

Journal of the History of Ideas;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......detailed expositions of this view come from Leibniz and Berkeley, the two great phenomenalists...continue to refer to the phenomenalisms of Leibniz and Berkeley, though the same could also...Whatever the label, the relevant positions of Leibniz and Berkeley will be explained in what...

The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz,...

Renaissance Quarterly;  June 22, 2007 ;     611 words ......Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago...in particular Descartes, Pascal, and Leibniz--developed their mathematical and scientific...apparently connected. In a discussion of Leibniz, for example, Jones entertains Leibniz...

Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the...

Theological Studies;  September 1, 2008 ;     284 words ...LEIBNIZ ON THE TRINITY AND THE INCARNATION: REASON AND REVELATION...thesis (1999) brings together the many fragments in which Leibniz discussed his theological ideas and attempts to extract from them his theology. She presents Leibniz as a religious thinker who cared for theological questions...