ISBN:
9789400700413
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (213 pages)
Series Statement:
The New Synthese Historical Library v.67
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DDC:
128.6
Keywords:
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, -- Freiherr von, -- 1646-1716
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Metaphysics
Abstract:
In recent decades, there has been much controversy over the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. 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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Leibniz Versus Stahl on the Way Machines of Nature Operate -- 1 Mechanism Versus Stahls Heterogeneous Organism -- 2 Resorting to Physical-Chemical Models -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Leibnizs Animals: Where Teleology Meets Mechanism -- 1 Macroteleology Versus Microteleology -- 2 Teleology and Mechanism in the Big Picture -- 3 Five Theories: Idealism, Parallelism, Hylomorphism, Panpsychism, and Animal -- 3.1 Idealism -- 3.2 Parallelism -- 3.3 Hylomorphism -- 3.4 Panpsychism -- 3.5 Animal -- 4 Comparison with an Exclusive Idealist Interpretation -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Monads and Machines -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 Distinguishing Living and Non-Living Machines -- 2.1 Self-Motion -- 2.2 Self-Preservation and Nutrition -- 2.3 Reproduction -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines: Or What It Means to Remain a Machine to the Least of Its Parts -- 1 Some Background and Motivation -- 1.1 Erwin Schr'dinger's What Is Life -- 1.2 Kant's Third Critique -- 2 Descartes and the Analogy Between Natural and Artificial Machines -- 3 Leibnizs Distinction Between Natural and Artificial Machines -- 4 Does Leibnizs Distinction Make Sense -- 5 A Structural Reading of What It Means To Remain a Machine to the Least of Its Parts -- 6 A Functional Reading of What It Means To Remain a Machine to the Least of Its Parts -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- 6 The Organic Versus the Living in the Light of Leibnizs Aristotelianisms -- 1 Back from the Dead -- 2 The Essentials of Essence -- 3 An Ambiguous Aristotelianism -- 4 Ubi Manet -- 5 That Ole Devil -- 6 No Living Organisms -- 7 A New Transcendental -- References -- 7 The Machine Analogy in Medicine: A Comparative Approach to Leibniz and His Contemporaries.
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