The Philosophy of Leibniz : Metaphysics and Language.
This is the first, and indeed the definitive systematic account of the wide-ranging philosophical ideas of Leibniz. The author, a highly respected analytical philosopher, has brought his own formidable abilities to bear on the unwieldy and inaccessible corpus of Leibniz's work.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford Scholarship Online
1986.
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Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Life and Works""; ""1. The Early Years (1646�72)""; ""2. Paris (1672�76)""; ""3. In Hanover, under Three Princes""; ""4. Works""; ""II. The System in Outline""; ""III. Propositions and Concepts""; ""1. The Three Regions""; ""2. Notation""; ""3. Propositions""; ""4. Concepts""; ""IV. Possible Worlds""; ""1. Possible Worlds as Sets of Concepts""; ""2. Puzzles about Mirroring""; ""3. A Numerical Model of the Possible Worlds""; ""V. Truth""; ""1. The Predicate-in-Subject Principle""; ""2. Containment""; ""3. Truth Conditions""
- ""4. Relativization to Possible Worlds""""5. Some Consequences""; ""6. Critique""; ""VI. Necessary and Contingent Truths""; ""1. Absolute Necessity""; ""2. Hypothetical Necessity""; ""VII. Identity in the Actual World""; ""1. Two Criteria""; ""2. Oblique Contexts""; ""3. The Identity of Indiscernibles""; ""VIII. Cross-World Identity""; ""1. Adam's Concept""; ""2. The Double World""; ""3. Continuity""; ""4. Rigid Designators""; ""IX. ""Two Great Principles"" and Two Lesser Ones""; ""1. The Principle of Identity or of Contradiction""; ""2. The Principle of Sufficient Reason""
- ""3. The Principle of Continuity""""4. The Principle of the Best""; ""X. Leibniz's Nominalism and the Lingua Philosophica""; ""1. That Only Individual Substances Exist""; ""2. Nominalistic Rephrasings""; ""3. Nominalism and the Reform of Language""; ""4. The Lingua Philosophica""; ""XI. Leibnizian Substances""; ""1. Substance, Simple and Complex""; ""2. Accident""; ""3. Perception""; ""4. Bodies""; ""5. Leibniz on the Mind-Body Problem""; ""XII. Relations and Denominations""; ""1. The Principal Texts""; ""2. Terminology""; ""3. Sentences and Propositions; Predicates and Properties""
- ""4. Reducibility and Dispensability""""5. Denominations""; ""6. Summary""; ""7. Some Additional Texts""; ""XIII. Space and Time""; ""1. The Controversy with Newton""; ""2. Analysis Situs""; ""XIV. Concluding Thoughts""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""