Leibniz and the English-Speaking World

ISBN-13: 9789048173181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 250 str.

Pauline Phemister; Stuart Brown

Opis

This volume explores the attention awarded in the English-speaking world to German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete with an introductory overview, the book collects fourteen essays that consider Leibniz s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. It sheds new light on Leibniz's philosophy and that of his contemporaries."

Spis treści

Preface.- Abbreviations.- 1. Leibniz and the English-speaking World: an introductory overview; S. Brown and P. Phemister.- 2. Leibniz’s Debt to Hobbes; G. MacDonald Ross.- 3. Two Opponents of Material Atomism: Cavendish and Leibniz; C. Wilson.- 4. Wilkins, Dalgarno, and the Development of Leibniz’s Theory of Metaphysical Concepts; A. Blank.- 5. 'Un de mes amis'. On Leibniz’s Relation to the English Mathematician and Theologian John Wallis; P. Beeley.- 6. Leibniz and Robert Boyle: Reason and Faith; Rationalism and Voluntarism; S. Brown.- 7. Leibniz and the Cambridge Platonists in the Debate over Plastic Natures; J. E. H. Smith and P. Phemister.- 8. Nouveaux Essais: Conversation or Amicable Contest?; M. Brandt Bolton.- 9. Leibniz, Locke, and the Epistemology of Toleration; N. Jolley.- 10. 'Is the Logic in London Different from the Logic in Hanover?': Some Methodological Issues in Leibniz’s Dispute with the Newtonians over the Cause of Gravity; G. Brown.- 11. The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition; S. H. Daniel.- 12. Synechism and Monadology: Charles Sanders Peirce’s Reading of Leibniz; E. Vargas.- 13. How did B. Russell make Leibniz into a ‘Fellow Spirit’?; N. Goethe.- 14. Leibniz, Russell and Wittgenstein on Possible and Impossible Notions; O. Nachtomy.- 15. Leibniz and the Personalism of L. E. Loemker; R. J. Mulvaney.- References.- Index.

Blurb

These essays comprise a first attempt to assess overall the attention awarded to Leibniz’s philosophy in the English-speaking world in his own time and up to the present day.

In addition to an introductory overview there are fourteen original and previously unpublished essays considering Leibniz’s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. Some of the papers shed new light on familiar topics, including the influence of Hobbes on Leibniz, his relations with Locke and the well-publicised controversy with Samuel Clarke. Others chart less familiar territory, including Leibniz’s connections with Boyle and Berkeley, Wilkins and Dalgarno. And others still break new ground in considering Leibniz’s connections with John Wallis and Margaret Cavendish. There are four concluding papers on the later reception of Leibniz’s philosophy in the English-speaking world, including two on Bertrand Russell and Leibniz, and two on the reception of Leibniz by American philosophers, Peirce and Loemker.