ISBN:
9781402052439
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
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v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 62
Parallel Title:
Print version Leibniz and the English-speaking World
DDC:
193
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716
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Englisches Sprachgebiet
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Rezeption
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716
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Englisches Sprachgebiet
Abstract:
This volume explores the attention awarded in the English-speaking world to German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete with an introductory overview, the book collects fourteen essays that consider Leibniz's connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. It sheds new light on Leibniz's philosophy and that of his contemporaries.
Abstract:
These essays comprise a first attempt to assess overall the attention awarded to Leibniz s philosophy in the English-speaking world in his own time and up to the present day. In addition to an introductory overview there are fourteen original and previously unpublished essays considering Leibniz s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. Some of the papers shed new light on familiar topics, including the influence of Hobbes on Leibniz, his relations with Locke and the well-publicised controversy with Samuel Clarke. Others chart less familiar territory, including Leibniz s connections with Boyle and Berkeley, Wilkins and Dalgarno. And others still break new ground in considering Leibniz s connections with John Wallis and Margaret Cavendish. There are four concluding papers on the later reception of Leibniz s philosophy in the English-speaking world, including two on Bertrand Russell and Leibniz, and two on the reception of Leibniz by American philosophers, Peirce and Loemker.
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Matter; Leibniz and the English-Speaking World; Leibniz's Debt to Hobbes; Two Opponents of Material Atomism; Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz and the Descriptive Nature of Metaphysical Concepts; ''Un de mes amis''; Leibniz and Robert Boyle; Leibniz and the Cambridge Platonists; Leibniz's Nouveaux Essais; Leibniz, Locke, and the Epistemology of Toleration; ''Is the Logic in London Different from the Logic in Hanover?''; The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition; Synechism and Monadology; How did Bertrand Russell make Leibniz into a ''Fellow Spirit''?*; Leibniz and Russell
Description / Table of Contents:
Leibniz and the Personalism of L. E. LoemkerBack Matter
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-5243-9
URN:
urn:nbn:de:1111-200708029308
