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On Leibniz / Nicholas Rescher.

Title
On Leibniz / Nicholas Rescher.
Author
Rescher, Nicholas
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013].

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x, 406 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
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Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
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Contents
Leibniz on possible worlds -- Contingentia mundi: Leibniz on the world's contingency -- Leibniz on intermonadic relations -- Leibniz and the plurality of space-time frameworks -- Leibniz and the concept of a system -- Leibniz and issues of eternal recurrence -- Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and rational mechanics -- Leibniz and the world's improvability -- The epistemology of inductive reasoning in Leibniz -- Leibniz, Keynes, and the rabbis -- Leibniz and socialized medicine -- The contributions of the Paris period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's metaphysics -- Leibniz finds a niche (1676-1677) -- Leibniz visits Vienna (1712-1714) -- Leibniz crosses the Atlantic -- Leibniz and American philosophy -- Leibniz and cryptography -- Leibniz's Machina Deciphratoria: a seventeenth century proto-enigma machine -- Process philosophy and monadological metaphysics -- Was Leibniz ennobled? -- Leibniz disillusioned: parting ways from J.D. Crafft.
ISBN
  • 9780822962182
  • 0822962187
OCLC
794361953
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library