Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Critical Assessments, Volume 1R. S. Woolhouse Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was one of the seventeenth century's most important thinkers. A philosopher, mathematician and scientist, his work is comparable in scope and importance only to that of Newton and Descartes. His work dominated German philosophy until Kant, and was revived in the early part of this century when his important work on logic was re-discovered. |
Contents
A Reappraisal of Leibnizs Views on Space Time | 20 |
On the Metaphysics of Leibnizian Space and Time | 62 |
Space and Time in the Leibnizian Metaphysic | 76 |
Time and the Monad | 104 |
Leibnizs Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles | 127 |
Motion and Metaphysics in the Young Leibniz | 148 |
Quod ostendendum susceperamus What did Leibniz | 177 |
Do Meanings Matter? | 198 |
Leibniz on Substance Activity | 289 |
Leibnizs Dynamics and Contingency in Nature | 321 |
Leibniz and Atomism | 342 |
The Principle of Continuity and the Evaluation of Theories | 369 |
Miracles and Laws | 390 |
The Logical Work of Leibniz | 421 |
Leibniz and Language | 436 |
Leibniz on Locke on Language | 452 |
Leibniz vs the Cartesians on Motion and Force | 217 |
Leibniz on the Metaphysical Foundations of Science | 240 |
Passivity and Inertia in Leibnizs Dynamics | 273 |
Leibniz and Locke on Essences | 496 |