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Leibniz
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ISBN: 9782729864194 2729864199 Year: 2011 Publisher: Paris : Ellipses,

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Leibniz est un penseur du monde, conçu comme création divine. Profondément convaincu que la Raison n'est pas proprement humaine, mais qu'elle commande l'ordre créé, il n'a de cesse de chercher à fonder ses usages différenciés, de la nécessité logique à la contingence de nos actions. Penseur de l'action, Leibniz refuse de soumettre la nature à un hasard ou à une nécessité aveugles, sans souscrire pour autant à un finalisme facile, qui renoncerait à l'explication du détail des événements particuliers. Sa philosophie se présente ainsi comme l'effort toujours renouvelé de réformer la modernité pour la rendre capable d'accomplir ses promesses : rompre avec une vision enchantée de la nature tout en faisant droit à l'ancrage sensible de la raison.


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Studia Leibnitiana
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ISSN: 2366228X 00393185

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Die Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Philosophie und der Wissenschaften, begründet 1969, ist das Organ der Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft. Sie erforscht Werk und Denken von Leibniz und dient der Erkenntnis der geistes- und ideengeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge seiner Epoche von der Renaissance bis zur Aufklärung. Das Periodikum wird von einem internationalen Gelehrtenkreis verschiedener Disziplinen (Philosophen, Mathematikern und Historikern) herausgegeben und umfasst Beiträge in deutscher, englischer und französischer Sprache, die in einem peer review-Verfahren ausgewählt werden.

The gift of science : Leibniz and the modern legal tradition
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ISBN: 0674018737 0674020790 9780674020795 9780674018730 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Moving from the scientific revolution to the nineteenth-century rise of legal codes, Berkowitz tells the story of how lawyers and philosophers invented legal science to preserve law's claim to moral authority. The "gift" of science, however, proved bittersweet. Instead of strengthening the bond between law and justice, the subordination of law to science transformed law from an ethical order into a tool for social and economic ends.


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Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms : Between Continuity and Transformation
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ISBN: 9789401799560 9401799555 9789401799553 9401799563 Year: 2015 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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This anthology is about the signal change in Leibniz’s metaphysics with his explicit adoption of substantial forms in 1678-79. This change can either be seen as a moment of discontinuity with his metaphysics of maturity or as a moment of continuity, such as a passage to the metaphysics from his last years.  Between the end of his sejour at Paris (November 1676) and the first part of the Hanover period, Leibniz reformed his dynamics and began to use the theory of corporeal substance. This book explores a very important part of the philosophical work of the young Leibniz. Expertise from around the globe is collated here, including Daniel Garber’s work based on the recent publication of Leibniz's correspondence from the late 1690s, examining how the theory of monads developed during these crucial years. Richard Arthur argues that the introduction of substantial forms, reinterpreted as enduring primitive forces of action in each corporeal substance, allows Leibniz to found the reality of the phenomena of motion in force, and thus avoid reducing motion to a mere appearance. Amongst other themes covered in this book, Pauline Phemister’s paper investigates Leibniz’s views on animals and plants, highlighting changes, modifications and elaborations over time of Leibniz’s views and supporting arguments and paying particular attention to his claim that the future is already contained in the seeds of living things. The editor, Adrian Nita, contributes a paper on the continuity or discontinuity of Leibniz’s work on the question of the unity and identity of substance from the perspective of the relation with soul (anima) and mind (mens).


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The Complex Itinerary of Leibniz’s Planetary Theory : Physical Convictions, Metaphysical Principles and Keplerian Inspiration
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ISBN: 3319212354 3319212362 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,

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This book presents new insights into Leibniz’s research on planetary theory and his system of pre-established harmony. Although some aspects of this theory have been explored in the literature, others are less well known. In particular, the book offers new contributions on the connection between the planetary theory and the theory of gravitation. It also provides an in-depth discussion of Kepler’s influence on Leibniz’s planetary theory and, more generally, on Leibniz’s concept of pre-established harmony. Three initial chapters presenting the mathematical and physical details of Leibniz’s works provide a frame of reference. The book then goes on to discuss research on Leibniz’s conception of gravity and the connection between Leibniz and Kepler. .


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Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry : The Unpublished Manuscripts
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ISBN: 3319198629 3319198637 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,

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This book offers a general introduction to the geometrical studies of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his mathematical epistemology. In particular, it focuses on his theory of parallel lines and his attempts to prove the famous Parallel Postulate. Furthermore it explains the role that Leibniz’s work played in the development of non-Euclidean geometry. The first part is an overview of his epistemology of geometry and a few of his geometrical findings, which puts them in the context of the seventeenth-century studies on the foundations of geometry. It also provides a detailed mathematical and philosophical commentary on his writings on the theory of parallels, and discusses how they were received in the eighteenth century as well as their relevance for the non-Euclidean revolution in mathematics. The second part offers a collection of Leibniz’s essays on the theory of parallels and an English translation of them. While a few of these papers have already been published (in Latin) in the standard Leibniz editions, most of them are transcribed from Leibniz’s manuscripts written in Hannover, and published here for the first time. The book provides new material on the history of non-Euclidean geometry, stressing the previously neglected role of Leibniz in these developments. This volume will be of interest to historians in mathematics, philosophy or logic, as well as mathematicians interested in non-Euclidean geometry.


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Machines of nature and corporeal substances in Leibniz
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ISBN: 9400700407 9786613085887 9400700415 1283085887 Year: 2011 Publisher: Dordrecht [The Netherlands] : Springer,

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In recent decades, there has been much scholarly controversy as to the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). The old picture of his thought as strictly idealistic, or committed to the ultimate reduction of bodies to the activity of mind, has come under attack, but Leibniz's precise conceptualization of bodies, and the role they play in his system as a whole, is still the subject of much controversy. One thing that has become clear is that in order to understand the nature of body in Leibniz, and the role body plays in his philosophy, it is crucial to pay attention to the related concepts of organism and of corporeal substance, the former being Leibniz's account of the structure of living bodies (which turn out, for him, to be the only sort of bodies there are), and the latter being an inheritance from the Aristotelian hylomorphic tradition which Leibniz appropriates for his own ends. This volume brings together papers from many of the leading scholars of Leibniz's thought, all of which deal with the cluster of questions surrounding Leibniz's philosophy of body.

Ideas and Mechanism
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ISBN: 0691004714 0691004706 1400864984 0691606307 1306983703 9781400864980 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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For more than three decades, Margaret Wilson's essays on early modern philosophy have influenced scholarly debate. Many are considered classics in the field and remain as important today as they were when they were first published. Until now, however, they have never been available in book form and some have been particularly difficult to find. This collection not only provides access to nearly all of Wilson's most significant work, but also demonstrates the continuity of her thought over time. These essays show that Wilson possesses a keen intelligence, coupled with a fearlessness in tackling the work of early modern philosophers as well as the writing of modern commentators. Many of the pieces collected here respond to philosophical issues of continuing importance.The thirty-one essays gathered here deal with some of the best known early philosophers, including Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza, and Berkeley. As this collection shows, Wilson is a demanding critic. She repeatedly asks whether the philosophers' arguments were adequate to the problems they were trying to solve and whether these arguments remain compelling today. She is not afraid to engage in complex argument but, at the same time, her own writing remains clear and fresh. Ideas and Mechanism is an essential collection of work by one of the leading scholars of our era.Originally published in 1999.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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