Leibniz's Legacy and Impact (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Weckend, Julia; Strickland, Lloyd

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leibniz made contributions to many areas, including philosophy, mathematics, political and social theory, theology, and various sciences.This volume explores the effects of his insights on subsequent generations of thinkers by tracing the ways in which his ideas have been defended and developed over the course of the last three centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351595476
• Artikelnr.: 57532800

Autorenporträt

Lloyd Strickland is Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). His principal research interests are Early Modern Philosophy (especially Leibniz), and Philosophy of Religion. In addition to numerous journal articles he has published nine books, including Leibniz Reinterpreted (2006), Leibniz and the Two Sophies (2011), Leibniz's Monadology (2014), Leibniz on God and Religion (2016), Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz (2017, with Julia Weckend and Erik Vynckier), Proofs of God in Early Modern Europe (2018), and Leibniz's Key Philosophical Writings (2019, with Paul Lodge). He also runs a website which contains many of his translations of Leibniz's writings: http://www.leibniz-translations.com Julia Weckend has taught philosophy at the Universities of Southampton and Reading before joining Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education as a tutor in 2014. Her research interests are Early Modern Philosophy, in particular Leibnizian metaphysics and epistemology. Her publications include papers on Leibniz's notions of freedom and possibility, Leibniz's notion of certainty, and a new translation of Leibniz's "On the True Mystical Theology" to be found in Lloyd Strickland's volume Leibniz on God and Religion (2016). She is the co-editor of Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:
Making Waves: Leibniz's Legacy and Impact
Lloyd Strickland and Julia Weckend
Part I: Early Receptions
1. Leibniz and the Royal Society Revisited
Philip Beeley
2. Staying Optimistic! The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian
Optimism
Lloyd Strickland
3. On Leibniz and Hume - A Point of Contact
Julia Weckend
4. Kant's "True Apology for Leibniz"
Nicholas Jolley
Part II: Legacy in Science and Metaphysics
5. Leibnizian Conservation in d'Alembert's Traité de dynamique
Tzuchien Tho
6. Russian Leibnizianism
Frédéric Tremblay
7. Monkeys and Monads: The Unexpected Marriage between Darwinian
Evolutionary Theory and Leibnizian Metaphysics
Jeremy Dunham
8. "The point of view is in the body": Leibnizian Perspectivism in
Contemporary Anthropologies
Arnaud Pelletier
Part III: Impact in Law, Political Thought and Ecology
9. The Impact of Leibniz's Geometric Method for the Law
Christopher Johns
10. Leibniz and Political Thought
Douglas Moggach
11. Theoria cum praxi: Leibniz's Legacy into the Future
Pauline Phemister