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Leibniz, Whitehead, and the metaphysics of causation

Title: Leibniz, Whitehead, and the metaphysics of causation / Pierfrancesco Basile.
Author: Basile, Pierfrancesco.
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Description

xi, 174 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Alfred North Whitehead was the greatest speculative metaphysician of the 20th century & a teacher to contemporary philosophers Russell & Quine. This study introduces the reader to his complex & often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions about the nature of causation originally raised by Leibniz.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-167) and index.

Contents

Introduction: from Leibniz to Whitehead -- The conception of substance: Whitehead, Russell, and Leibniz -- the relevance of Leibniz Ward's theory of monads -- The phenomenology of causation: Whitehead and Hume -- The metaphysics of causation: White, Hume, and James -- The reality of forms: Whitehead's theistic argument -- The final view: the dipolar conception of God -- Epilogue: is a Leibnizian metaphysics still possible today?

ISBN

9780230580619
0230580610
9780230242197
0230242197

LCCN

2009279906

OCLC

ocn308173863
308173863
SCSB-9454514

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Princeton University Library